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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JOURNALS

Originally our survey of art journals was incorporated within our general journals survey THE RACK & THE PRESS, now edited by B.J. Robinson. The establishment of VISIONS made it desirable to incorporate the list within its pages. We plan to expand our coverage with each issue.

We are looking for a colleague to join our editorial team with a view to developing this section. Please contact oscholars@gmail.com.
Editors are cordially invited to contact us at the same address with news of articles pertaining to our sphere of interest, and we will be pleased to hear from writers who wish us to draw attention to their articles.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Art Book
Art History
Artefact
Arts & Crafts Newsletter now Art Chronicle
British Art Journal
The Burlington Magazine
Journal of Design History
Journal of Modern Craft
Kunstchronik
NAVSA Newsletter
Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide
The Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society
Sehepunkte
Visual Culture in Britain
Word & Image

TWO German journals

Isa Bickmann writes ‘There are no magazines in Germany whose special interest is 19th century art. From time to time KUNSTCHRONIK, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, Journal für Kunstgeschichte, Kunstform (http://www.arthistoricum.net/index.php?id=332) and SEHEPUNKTE (http://www.sehepunkte.de/about-us/) publish reviews on our topics. But these reviews are once in a blue moon ...’

The Art Book

The Table of Contents of Volume 16 Issue 3 (August 2009), published on behalf of the Association of Art Historians and edited by Sue Ward & Marion Arnold, is now available.

Art History

Published on behalf of the Association of Art Historians and edited by David Peters Corbett and Christine Riding, Art History (ISSN 0141-6790) is a refereed journal that publishes essays and reviews on all aspects, areas and periods of the history of art, from a diversity of perspectives, 5 issues per year. Founded in 1978, it has established an international reputation for publishing innovative essays at the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship. At the forefront of scholarly enquiry, contributors to Art History are opening up the discipline to new developments and to the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches that are increasingly important in this globalised world. 'Art History' publishes a thematic ‘special issue’ each year.

Art History offers a diverse reviews section for those involved in the history of art and related fields. You can get online information about the journal directly from Blackwell’s website. This includes a listing of contents, the aims and scope of the journal, notes for contributors, subscription information for non-members.

The latest issues are those of June 2009 (Vol. 32/3) and September 2009 (Vol. 32/4). An article that falls within our interests, ‘The Condition Of Music, Wagnerism And Printmaking In France And Britain’ (pp. 545-577) by Rachel Sloan, is in the first of these.

Artefact

Artefact is a new peer reviewed journal published by the Irish Association of Art Historians in consultation with academics from universities across Ireland, north and south. Artefact welcomes submissions on all periods and aspects of art history and visual culture, and aim to provide an outlet for publication of new and emerging scholarship in Ireland. The inaugural issue of Artefact was launched in autumn 2007. The second issue of Artefact was launched at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Friday 27th February, 2009 3.00 pm. 

The Editorial Committee has invited artucles for Issue 3 of Artefact. The deadline for receipt of full-length submissions was Friday, 1st May 2009. For a call-for-submissions notice and an information-sheet re submission guidelines contact artefactjournal@gmail.com.

Arts & Crafts Newsletter now called ART CHRONICLE

The latest issue on line of Mark Golding’s Arts and Crafts Newsletter, no 76, June 2008, can be found by clicking its banner. Notice of each monthly issue of this very useful and informative journal is available by e-mail from mark@achome.co.uk.

British Art Journal

The British Art Journal (‘The research journal of British Arts Studies’, founded in 1999), maintains a website at www.britishartjournal.co.uk. It is not easy to tell from this what was its most recent issue, but it seems it have been July 2009. The Editor is Robin Simon.

The burlington magazine

Describing itself as ‘the world's leading art periodical, founded in 1903 by a group of eminent art critics and historians, The Burlington Magazine soon established itself as the world's leading monthly art periodical. Covering all aspects of the fine and decorative arts from ancient times to the present day, the Magazine remains the most authoritative source of information on the visual arts available.’ The latest issue is August 2009. To find out more about the Magazine, click the banner.

Journal of Design History

‘Journal of Design History is a leading journal in its field. It plays an active role in the development of design history (including the history of the crafts and applied arts), as well as contributing to the broader field of studies of visual and material culture. The journal includes a regular book reviews section and lists books received, and from time to time publishes special issues.’ The latest issue of which there are details on line is Volume 22, Number 2, June 2009, and the Table of Contents can be reached by clicking the illustration.  There are no articles of direct fin-de-siècle interest but there are reviews of Vienna: City of Modernity, 1890–1914 (Sabine Wieber) and Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life (Leslie Topp).

Journal of modern craft

Edited by Glenn Adamson, Victoria & Albert Museum; Edward S. Cooke, Jr., Yale University; Tanya Harrod, Royal College of Art.

Print ISSN: 1749-6772; Online ISSN: 1749-6780 .Frequency: 3 times per year starting in March 2008

The Journal of Modern Craft is the first peer-reviewed academic journal to provide an interdisciplinary and international forum in its subject area. It addresses all forms of making that self-consciously set themselves apart from mass production—whether in the making of designed objects, artworks, buildings, or other artefacts. 

The journal covers craft in all its historical and contemporary manifestations. It starts in the mid-nineteenth-century, when handwork was first consciously framed in opposition to industrialization, through to the present time, when ideas once confined to the ‘applied arts’ have come to seem vital across a huge range of cultural activities. Special emphasis is placed on studio practice, and on the transformations of indigenous forms of craft activity throughout the world. The journal also reviews and analyses the relevance of craft within new media, folk art, architecture, design, contemporary art, and other fields.

The Journal of Modern Craft is the main scholarly voice on the subject of craft, conceived both as an idea and as a field of practice in its own right.

NAVSA Newsletter

The North American Victorian Studies Association has published its latest on-line newsletter, no 12 (click the banner). Among other things, the newsletter includes news of interest to Victorianists (prizes, conferences, etc.). The summer newsletter features the mammoth list of new and forthcoming book publications by NAVSA members. This year is no exception, with dozens of books on all manner of literary, historical, artistic, and interdisciplinary projects.

Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide

Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide is the world’s first scholarly, refereed e-journal devoted to the study of nineteenth-century painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, architecture, and decorative arts across the globe, and functions as the journal of Association of Historians of Nineteenth Century Art. Open to various historical and theoretical approaches the editors welcome contributions that reach across national boundaries and illuminate intercultural contact zones. The chronological scope of the journal is the ‘long’ nineteenth century, stretching from the American and French Revolutions, at one end, to the outbreak of World War I, at the other.

The Spring 2009 edition (Volume VIII Number 1) is now published. The leading articles for late nineteenth century scholars are listed below (hyperlinked):

ARTICLES

Compare and Contrast: Rhetorical Strategies in Edmond de Goncourt’s Japonisme by Pamela J. Warner

Studies of Japonisme have usually assumed a simple relationship of difference between Japanese and French art and culture, but Edmond de Goncourt's writing is remarkable for the number of comparisons he makes between France and Japan.  This essay considers the influence of positivism on Goncourt’s assertions, looking also at how Goncourt's Japonisme extended arguments he made in the 1860s against French academic art.

Making Matter Make Sense in Cézanne’s Still Lifes with Plaster Cupid by Joni Spigler

The author examines two of Cézanne’s paintings from the 1890s, both entitled Still Life with Plaster Cupid, and their relationship to late eighteenth-century empiricist “thought experiments” involving a “Statue Man”. The paintings are shown to be Cézanne’s stoic late-in-life reflections on the philosophical nature of mortality—illustrating life and death as but part of the sensationist /materialist metabolism of being in which matter endlessly recycles itself around and through things.

REVIEWS

Impressionism and the Modern Landscape: Productivity, Technology, and Urbanization from Manet to Van Gogh by James Rubin Reviewed by Marnin Young

Modern Women and Parisian Consumer Culture in Impressionist Painting by Ruth E. Iskin Reviewed by Francesca Bavuso

The New Bibliopolis: French Book Collectors and the Culture of Print, 1880-1914 by Willa Silverman Reviewed by Elizabeth Mix

Courbet by Ségolène Le Men Reviewed by Elizabeth Mansfield

Art in an Age of Civil Struggle, 1848-1871 by Albert Boime; and Revelation of Modernism: Responses to Cultural Crises in Fin-de-Siècle Painting by Albert Boime Reviewed by Elizabeth Mansfield

Matisse: Painter as Sculptor Reviewed by Ellen McBreen

Constantin Meunier in Sevilla. De andalusische ouverture Reviewed by Marjan Sterckx

Échappées nordiques: Scandinavian and Finnish Artists in France, 1870-1914 Reviewed by Kathryn Brown

Henry de Triqueti (1803-1874), scultore dei Principi Reviewed by Caterina Y. Pierre

Art in the Age of Steam: Europe, America and the Railway, 1830-1960 Reviewed by Janet Whitmore

Van Gogh: Heartfelt Lines Reviewed by Jane Van Nimmen

The Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society

First issued in the Spring of 1993, The Review has appeared three times a year (except in 1998, 2000 and 2003), when special issues on Burne-Jones, Ruskin and Millais each represented two numbers. The latest issue whose details are given on line is Vol. XVII, No.1, Spring 2009. Click the image for the Table of Contents.

Visual Culture in Britain

The website of Visual Culture in Britain is not very forthcoming about the journal, but its ToCs can be reached easily. As this is our first look, we give the titles of articles that can be found therein that come under our interest.

Volume 9, Number 2, Winter 2008

The Artist in the House of His Patron: Images-within-Images in John Everett Millais’s Portraits of the Wyatt Family
pp. 1-20(20)
Author: Roach, Catherine

WORD & IMAGE

‘Word & Image concerns itself with the study of the encounters, dialogues and mutual collaboration (or hostility) between verbal and visual languages, one of the prime new areas of humanistic criticism. Word & Image provides a forum for articles that focus exclusively on this special study of the relations between words and images. Themed issues, guest-edited by internationally acknowledged scholars, are a regular feature of the journal.’ 4 issues per year; print version only. It is not easy to find its Table of Contents on-line, as seemingly the latest, flagged as such, is for October-December 2006, whereas the current issue is no 25 (undated). We gave up.

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