Editor: D.C. Rose.

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

WINTER 2009/2010

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EDITORIAL & CONTENTS

This is the sixth issue of VISIONS, which continues to evolve both in form and content, and we are sensitive to reader response. 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, has now been 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, with no new additions
Brushstrokes: short notices
Conferences – Seminars – Symposia – Lectures – Calls for Papers
Exhibitions: Austria – Australia – Canada – Czech Republic – England – Germany – Ireland – Italy – Japan – The Netherlands – Norway – Portugal – Russia – Spain – Switzerland – USA – Wales
In the Eye of the Critic – Views and Reviews by Isa Bickmann, Bénédicte Coste, Glyn Newman, Nele Martina Putz, Charlotte Ribeyrol, Marion Thain and Michael Tilby
Index to Reviews in earlier issues
Journals : A review
Publications & research
Vision into Film : posters of films that depict the painters and sculptors of our period
The Societies Page

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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).

INternational association for fin-de-siècle studies

We are pleased to announce the formation of this cosmopolitan and pluridisciplinary association. By the beginning of December this had attracted well over 200 supporters. For more information, write to D.C. Rose at finsiec@gmail.com.

John william waterhouse

http://www.mbam.qc.ca/waterhouse/en/index.html is a development of the Waterhouse exhibition at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. This links to videos of specific paintings with a commentary. For a review by Simon Poe of the exhibition on its London showing from September's Apollo see http://www.apollo-magazine.com/reviews/5283193/waterhouse-the-seductive-symbolist.thtml.

orientalism

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

Terra Foundation for American Art Europe Library (Paris)

Since fall 2009, the Terra Foundation library is open to the public. It is the only research library in Europe devoted exclusively to American art and counts numerous rare books in its collection. While not comprehensive, the collection includes approximately 5,000 books and catalogues covering the history of American art from the eighteenth century to 1980 with a specialization on art of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Catalogued using the Library of Congress system, the entire collection is available online at the following address: http://catalogue.terra.biblibre.com/. In the near future, databases, as well as periodicals in electronic format, will also be available to library-users.

The library includes books on fine arts, decorative arts, and photography as well as monographs on artists born or active in the United States. The collection is particularly rich in resources on painting, including several important groups of monographs, and exhibition and collection catalogues produced in Europe and in the United States. Books on history, philosophy, literature, and visual culture of the United States allow scholars to study American art in a larger cultural and historic context.

The collection is available for in-house consultation with a reading room of a capacity of 12 seats. The library is open on Tuesdays and Thursdays by appointment only, to university students, professors, museum professionals, and independent scholars.

For more information and appointments, please contact by phone: +33 1 43 20 82 65 or email: library@terraamericanart.eu.

Terra Foundation for American Art Europe, 29 rue des Pyramides 75001 Paris – France; T. + 33 1 43 20 67 01; F. + 33 1 40 20 49 88 www.terraamericanart.org/europe.

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.

The John Pickard Essay Prize.

The Pre-Raphaelite Society invites anyone with an interest in nineteenth-century art to enter a monograph of not more than 2000 words for The John Pickard Essay Prize.  The monograph may be on any individual related to the Pre-Raphaelite circle. The winner will receive £100 prize and publication in the Spring 2010 Review and subsequently the essays of runners-up may also be published.  The final decision will be made by the Committee of the Pre-Raphaelite Society. Entries are to be received by the Editor by 31st  December 2009, and may be emailed to serenatrowbridge@bcu.ac.uk

Goupil Stock Books Online: The Getty Provenance Index® Databases

We are pleased to announce the completion of the ‘Goupil Database’, part of the Getty Provenance Index®. The new database provides online access to all Goupil & Cie / Boussod, Valadon & Cie stock books held at the Getty Research Institute. The 15 ledgers from the Parisian main office of Goupil & Cie, and their successors Boussod, Valadon & Cie, contain such information as the dates of acquisition, dealer's costs, names of purchasers, dates of sales, and selling prices for about 30,000 works of art bought and sold by the gallery from 1846 to 1919.

Goupil & Cie was a central force on the French art market in the 19th century. Founded by Henri Rittner in 1827, the Parisian gallery soon established branches in London, Berlin, Brussels, New York, and The Hague, which were intended to provide a broad network for the distribution of reproductive prints. Goupil carried the work of academic artists, major painters of the Romantic generation, and principal figures of the Barbizon and The Hague schools. Besides some Impressionist paintings, the gallery also pursued minor trade in Old Masters. In 1884 the firm changed its name to ‘Boussod, Valadon & Cie, successeur de Goupil & Cie’. The original ledgers are available for consultation in the Getty Research Institute's Special Collections. They have also been digitized and are searchable in an online database (43,500 records). Quantitative analysis of the data should foster new insights into the dynamics of late-nineteenth century art markets.

Please see: http://piprod.getty.edu/starweb/goupil/servlet.starweb?path=goupil/goupil.web. Contact: Christian Huemer, Project for the Study of Collecting and Provenance, The Getty Research Institute, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA  90049-1688. Phone: +310-440 6372. Fax: +310-440 6178. mail: chuemer@getty.edu

Portraits of Mallarmé

For a useful discussion of the portraits of Mallarmé by Renoir and Manet (in French), click here.

AT WORK

For a short documentary (also in French on ‘Les déchargeurs de charbon’ by Monet and ‘Le coltineur de charbon’ by Gervex, click here.

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