VISIONS 6    

The Fine Arts, Crafts and Design of the Fin De Siècle

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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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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.

fingerWe 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.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Art Book

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Art History

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Artefact

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Arts & Crafts Newsletter now Art Chronicle

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British Art Journal

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The Burlington Magazine

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Journal of Design History

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Journal of Modern Craft

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Kunstchronik

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Kunstform

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NAVSA Newsletter

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Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide

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The Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society

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Sehepunkte

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Visual Culture in Britain

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Word & Image

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Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte

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SIX 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 and Sehepunkte publish reviews on our topics. But these reviews are once in a blue moon ...’  To these can now be add faust, a magazine on literature, arts, music etc.

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. 

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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.

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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 articles for Issue 3 of Artefact.  The deadline for receipt of full-length submissions was Friday, 1st May 2009, but no new issue is mentioned on their website. Contact http://artefactjournal.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 issue of this very useful and informative journal is available by e-mail from mark@achome.co.uk.

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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 December 2009.  The Editor is Robin Simon.  Two articles fall within our interests: Alice Eden on Robert Anning Bell and Mary Cowley on William Bell Scott.

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 January 2010  •  Number 1282  •  Volume CLII.  No articles fall within our interests but the following reviews do:

Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of Modernity, A.C. Braddock
   by Trevor Fairbrother
Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination, 1830-1880, I. Armstrong
   by Sonia Solicari
Symbolist Art in Poland, P. Kopszak and A. Szczerski
   by Grace Brockington
Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska, Gill (exhibition)
   by Patrick Elliott

To find out more about the Magazine, click the banner.

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JOURNAL OF ART HISTORIOGRAPHY

This journal published its first issue on 31st December 2009 (a thematic issue devoted in part to Viennese and German art historiography) and will appear every six months thereafter. It intends to offer a focus for the study of art historiography. Its mission statement reads: ‘This journal exists to support and promote the study of the history of art historical writing.’  Its website can be found by clicking here.

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 Number 4, December 2009, and the Table of Contents can be reached by clicking the illustration.  Of direct fin-de-siècle interest is a review by Joseph McBrinn of  ‘Art and Labour's Cause Is One’: Walter Crane and Manchester, 1880–1915 • From Toy Books to Bloody Sunday: Tales from The Walter Crane Archive.

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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.  The latest issue is Volume 2, Number 2, July 2009 with one review, by Baird Jarman, of interest: ‘Design in the Age of Darwin: From William Morris to Frank Lloyd Wright’.

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Ma’arav

Ma’arav (ambush) is an Online Israeli art and culture magazine. Ma’arav is one of the leading publications on art and culture in Israel and is the leading online art & culture magazine in Israel.  Ma’arav was established in the beginning of 2004 and provides tools to those interested in art and culture – from theoretical discussions and debates to information on artists, exhibits, events, and technology.

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.

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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.

Volume 8, Issue 2 | Autumn 2009 is now published. The leading articles for late nineteenth century scholars are listed below (hyperlinked):

ARTICLES

Gustave Moreau's ‘Archaeological Allegory’ by Scott Allan

·         This paper considers, from both historical and theoretical perspectives, Gustave Moreau's key concept of ‘archeological allegory,’ which he articulated in order to justify a highly capricious and anachronistic use of accessory details in his history paintings, and to thereby oppose prevalent modes of historical genre painting that pretended to an archeological restitution of the past.

A Missing Question Mark: The Unknown Henry Ossawa Tanner by Will South

·         This article examines Henry Ossawa Tanner's complex sense of his own racial identity. Tanner's conflict was born of the fact that in his personal adult life he walked a fragile line between his whiteness and his blackness; in France, he systematically worked to remove race from the equation of his life. The author also identifies for the first time the source of his best-known painting, The Banjo Lesson.

Environment of Memory: Paris and Post-Commune Angst by Andrew Eschelbacher

·         In the decades following the Paris Commune of 1871, the Third Republic undertook an intensive program of monument building that would celebrate and legitimate the new government, while also erasing the scars of the recent Commune past. However, beneath the official Republican rhetoric, vestiges of the 1871 civic revolt manifested themselves in the city's memorial spaces and trapped the fin-de-siècle Republican audience in an angst-ridden stasis.

Fantin-Latour in Australia by Ann Elias

·         Was Henri Fantin-Latour aware of the migration of his work to the Antipodes? This article investigates the circumstances surrounding the popularity of the French artist's flower paintings in Australia.

Natural History, Cultural History, and the Art History of Elie Faure by Serena Keshavjee

·         The author explores how art historian and scientist Elie Faure assimilated neo-Lamarckian evolutionary theory into his global art series the History of art (five volumes published between 1909 and 1927). Faure's main thesis is that art, from different periods and different times, was created by an evolutionary driving force, and thus global art was a reflection of a global culture and a unitary cosmos. Faure's relationship with the anarchist Elisée Reclus and Symbolist artist Eugène Carrière are also explored.

 

REVIEWS

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REBUS

re·bus is the online postgraduate journal of the Department of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex. Its aim is to further critical debate in this and related fields through the publication of the work of students of the department, and the proceedings of postgraduate conferences. The range of approaches and subject matters reflects the rich diversity of a department renowned for the scholarship of its staff and students alike.  The latest Issue is no. 4 (Autumn/Winter·2009), edited by Matthew Bowman and Stephen Moonie, and contains nothing concerning our period.

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.3, Autumn 2009. Click the image for the Table of Contents.  The following articles are published:

·         ‘Works and Days’ by Jorge L. Contreras – an occasional survey of Pre‑Raphaelite and Victorian works recently bought, sold and displayed.

·         ‘Friend or Foe? George du Maurier and the Pre-Raphaelites’ by Stell-Louise Halliwell

·         ‘Book Review Desperate Romantics by Franny Moyle ‘ by Amelia Yeates

·         ‘Pre-Raphaelite tendencies in the painting of The Hon. John Collier’ by Katja Robinson

·         ‘Exhibition Review Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts ‘ by Nic Peeters

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Visual Culture in Britain

The website of Visual Culture in Britain is not very forthcoming about the journal, but its Tables of Contents can be reached easily. The latest issue mentioned is Volume 9, Number 2, Winter 2008.  We give the titles of articles that come under our interest.

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

 

High Society and Low Life: Celebrities and Social Types in the Portrait Photography of E.O. Hoppé
pp. 21-41(21)
Author: Stokoe, Brian

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, costing for private individuals £235.00      or $392.00 or €313.00.  It is not easy to find its Table of Contents on-line, as seemingly the latest, flagged as such, is still Volume 22 no 4 for October-December 2006, whereas the current issue is no 26 (undated).  We gave up.

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