Editor: D.C. Rose.

Associate Editors: Anne Anderson, Isa Bickmann, Tricia Cusack, Nicola Gauld, Charlotte Ribeyrol, Sarah Turner.
Hon. Advisor: Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch.

SUMMER 2009

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EDITORIAL & CONTENTS

This is the fifth issue of VISIONS, which continues to evolve both in form and content, and we are sensitive to reader response. With this issue our Editorial team is joined by Dr Charlotte Ribeyrol (The Sorbonne), who will develop our French coverage. For profiles of all our editors, click .

Clicking on the brush icon in the Table of Contents will bring you directly to each section: you can also scroll down this page, but four of our sections (Bibliographies, Exhibitions, Societies and Reviews) are on separate pages.

VISIONS is one of three journals published on our website that cover the arts and æsthetic of the fin-de-siècle, the others being NOCTURNE and THE EIGHTH LAMP. The first series of NOCTURNE, our James McNeill Whistler journal, came to an end when we moved websites, and after various attempts to revive it, is now being merged with VISIONS. THE EIGHTH LAMP, edited by Anuradha Chatterjee and Carmen Casaliggi, is devoted to John Ruskin, and the second issue is now on line. Visual arts may also spill over into other journals on our website.

Please contact oscholars@gmail.com for inclusion on the mailing list for alerts to new issues for any of our journals. The alert to the last issue of VISIONS went to 113 art historians, and this one to 170: we hope this number will increase. Do please recruit for us !

All our journals are served by a discussion forum which also functions as a 'Letters to the Editor' section. This is also used for posting announcements and readers are strongly recommended to sign up. It can be reached by clicking its icon.

Ø We are now seeking original essays (which will be blind refereed) on any aspect of the Fine Arts, Crafts and Design of the Fin-de-Siècle. We would also like to appoint editors responsible for developing our Auctions listings and our coverage of art journals. Please contact oscholars@gmail.com.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Abstracts. This section is intended for abstracts of theses, conference papers and work in progress
Auctions, with links to illustrations, catalogues and exhibition details
Bibliographies – in course of development
Brushstrokes: short notices
Conferences – Seminars – Symposia – Lectures – Calls for Papers
Exhibitions: Austria – Australia – Canada – Czech Republic – England – Germany – Ireland – Italy – Japan – The Netherlands – Portugal – Spain – Switzerland – USA – Wales
In the Eye of the Critic – Views and Reviews: Darwin – Sickert – Munch – Cosmopolitan Interiors – the Czech Fin De Siècle
Index to Reviews
Journals
Publications & research
Vision into Film : posters of films that depict the painters and sculptors of our period
The Society Pages

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BRUSH STROKES

SHRINES is an Appendix on THE OSCHOLARS website where we have begun to list, and now invite articles on, museums dedicated to the artists, writers and composers of the fin-de-siècle (with a few others added for good measure).

Simeon solomon

Roberto Ferrari writes ‘I'm working on a project about Simeon Solomon's 1860 Royal Academy painting "The Mother of Moses," at the Delaware Art Museum, and I'm hoping people on the list might have thoughts on what could have motivated the subject's popularity at the time.  For those unfamiliar with the work, the painting shows the mother and sister of Moses holding the infant in the moments before they are preparing to put him in the basket on the Nile, per the book of Exodus.  After reviewing Graves's printed indexes, it seems that this subject (and related subjects, such as the Pharaoh's daughter discovering the basket) appeared at RA exhibitions an average of 1 about every 5 years or so from 1800 to 1855.  This suggests to me that while it was a recurring theme, it was not common.  However, in 1859 the artist James Gow exhibited the subject, and in 1860 Solomon, Edward Armitage, and Marshall Claxton exhibited the subject.  Also in 1860, J.D. Marshall exhibited a related subject on the Pharaoh's daughter and Moses, and in 1861, Armitage exhibited a work on the Pharaoh's daughter.  This sudden flurry of paintings depicting Moses, his mother, his sister, and/or the Pharaoh's daughter seems like it could be connected to something in the mindset of the artists at the time, perhaps something related to Jewish culture, or Egypt, or motherhood, who knows.  I'm calling on the incredibly helpful wisdom of the VICTORIA listserv to see if anyone has any thoughts as to what could have taken place, maybe in history or literature or theater, that might have triggered this sudden interest in the subject.  Admittedly, it's very possible this is merely all just a coincidence, but I figured it might be worth seeing what others thought.  My thanks in advance.’ RFerrari@GC.CUNY.EDU

LE DÉJEUNER SUR L'HERBE (2006) : Hommage to Edouard Manet

Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau write ‘The 3 min. 39 sec. video shows on the left screen the finished montage with contemporary czech porn actors animating the classical painting by Edouard Manet which forms the backdrop of the scene. On the right screen the shooting of the video in a blue box is displayed, showing the set with the 2 cameramen-directors dressed and painted in blue. The phonetically repeated french dialogues of the actors add to the awkwardness of their performance and to the disconcerting atmosphere of the work. We invite you to watch & criticize the video online:
http://brodypaetau.com/?page_id=9. You can also buy this work online:
http://brodypaetau.com/?page_id=135. Wanted Works is an e-mail list encouraging criticality within contemporary visual art. [This is not for the fastidious – Editor, VISIONS]

orientalism

The site http://orientaliste.free.fr/ is the result of many years work bringing together images, biographical notices and hyperlinks to museums.

FELLOWSHIP IN PRE-RAPHAELITE STUDIES

From Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library, 181 South College Avenue, Newark, DE 19717. Tel (302) 831-3250. marksl@udel.edu; biblio@aol.com

The University of Delaware Library and the Delaware Art Museum invite applications for a joint Fellowship in Pre-Raphaelite Studies. This one-month Fellowship is intended for scholars working on the Pre- Raphaelites and their associates. Up to $2,500 is available. The recipient will be expected to be in residence and to make use of the resources of both the University of Delaware Library and the Delaware Art Museum.

By arrangement with the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, scholars may apply to each institution for awards in the same year; every effort will be made to offer consecutive dates.

The Delaware Art Museum is home to the most important collection of Pre-Raphaelite art in the US. Assembled largely by Samuel Bancroft, Jr., the collection includes paintings, works on paper, decorative arts, manuscripts, and letters, and is augmented by the museum’s Helen Farr Sloan art library.

With comprehensive holdings in books, periodicals, electronic resources, and microforms, the University of Delaware Library is a major resource for the study of literature and art. The Special Collections Department contains material related to the Pre-Raphaelites who are also well-represented in the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection of Victorian books, manuscripts, and artworks.

The deadline for applications is 15th October 2009. For more information and an application
form visit www.delart.org/education/fellowships.html or write to: Pre-Raphaelite Studies Fellowship Committee, Delaware Art Museum, 2301 Kentmere Parkway, Wilmington, DE 19806 USA.

ARTMAGICK

A selection of works by over 300 artists working during the 19th and early 20th centuries can be viewed on ArtMagick, a virtual gallery dedicated to the continual quest of seeking out obscure 19th century artists and long-forgotten paintings and poems illustrating a ‘magic world of romance and pictured poetry’. The majority of the content in the archive covers the Pre-Raphaelite and Symbolist movements. Most of the pictures chosen for inclusion on this site were inspired by themes from mythology and European literature. This is a wonderful compendium of the art of our chosen period.

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