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Editor: D.C. Rose |
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Associate
Editors: Anne Anderson, Isa Bickmann, Tricia Cusack, Nicola Gauld, Charlotte
Ribeyrol, Sarah Victoria Turner. |
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WINTER 2010 / 2011
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EDITORIAL &
CONTENTS
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This is the eighth 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 |
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Clicking on the brush icon in the Table of Contents will bring you directly to each section: you can also scroll down this page, and some of our sections are linked to separate pages. |
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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, but a second series is being contemplated. THE EIGHTH LAMP, edited by Anuradha Chatterjee and Laurence Roussillon-Constanty, is devoted to John Ruskin, and the fourth issue can be found here. Visual arts may also spill over into other journals on our website. |
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Please contact oscholars@gmail.com for inclusion on the mailing list for alerts to new issues for any of our journals. The alert to this issue of VISIONS goes to 170 art historians. Do please recruit for us ! |
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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. |
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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. |
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BRUSH STROKES |
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SHRINES
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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). |
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INternational association for
fin-de-siècle studies
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We are pleased to announce
the formation of this cosmopolitan and pluridisciplinary association. For more information, write to D.C. Rose at
finsiec@gmail.com. |
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Gustave moreau
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Wilde’s
debt to Moreau’s Salomé images is well known, but only recently have we
learned that Wilde repaid Moreau by sending him a signed copy of the
Librairie d’Art edition. This copy was
offered for sale as lot 597 by Dominic Winter Book Auctions, Wednesday
21st July 2011. |
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Wilde (Oscar). Salomé, Drame en un Acte, 1st ed.,
Paris & London, 1893, title with device by Felicien Rops, contemp.
silver print photograph of Moreau's watercolour of Salome dancing, tipped in
as frontis., author's signed presentation inscription to second blank verso
and sl. offset to half title, 'a Gustave Moreau, Hommage respectueux, Oscar
Wilde', with Wilde's trademark paraph to the last letter of his name, some
light browning to first two blanks and half title, orig. purple wrappers
printed in silver, somewhat faded and with marginal browning, the whole
(including spine) bound by Pagnant in contemp. boards with a stencilled
floral decoration design in red, green, blue and yellow, embossed ex libris
stamp of Oscar Molinari to additional blank front free endpaper, the
endpapers being two identical gilt pictorial designs of Saints, leather title
label to spine and gilt dated imprint at foot, worn along joints, 8vo. |
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An
outstanding and previously unknown association copy, gifted to the current
owner by his mother's landlady in Paris some forty years ago. |
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This
information was kindly provided by Chris Albury, Auctioneer &
Senior Valuer, Dominic Winter Book
Auctions, Specialist auctioneers of books, paper collectables, fine art,
plus related collectables and memorabilia, Mallard House, Broadway Lane,
South Cerney, Nr Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 5UQ. |
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DECADENT ART
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A good blog on Symbolist
and Decadent art can be found at http://decadenthandbook.wordpress.com/. |
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Understanding British Portraits
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Understanding British Portraits is a Subject Specialist Network that aims to enhance knowledge and understanding of portraits in all media in British collections, and to facilitate future dialogue and debate around research methodologies, interpretation, display and learning programmes. |
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The dahesh museum, new york
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‘Everyone we meet asks what the Museum has been doing since closing its doors at Madison Avenue and 57th Street. We want to assure our fans that the Museum has been nothing but busy. While we continue to look for a suitable new location, we have expanded our partnership with Syracuse University. |
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‘In addition, we have collaborated with other art
institutions and art schools to mount exhibitions that explore aspects of
Academic art right up to the present. We are lending individual works to major
exhibitions here and abroad, while large groups of our favourite paintings
and sculptures regularly travel to important European museums. In addition,
every year, we underwrite graduate student scholarship on the long 19th
century. |
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‘We continue to draw on the collection to develop new exhibitions as well as plan new publications. Our staff has begun work on a large-format volume that contains new research on the Museum's collection, including recent acquisitions. The website is being re-organized to make it easier to use and more informative. |
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‘While the Dahesh Museum of Art may not have found a permanent home, its mission remains the same and its value is undiminished.’ |
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Internationalism and Cultural Exchange 1870-1920 (ICE)
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The research network ‘Internationalism and Cultural
Exchange, 1870-1920’ (ICE) is an interdisciplinary project which explores the
interface between internationalism and the arts at a seminal historical
moment administered by Dr Grace Brockington and Dr Sarah Victoria Turner. |
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It brings together academics and curators from across the
world to debate the problems and possibilities of artistic and cultural
exchange and encounter in the period, and to explore the implications of
‘transnational history’ for teaching, research and display in the arts and
humanities. |
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For more information, please visit its website, which has been updated since we last listed it. |
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L’Histoire par l’image
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The website L’Histoire par l’image examines the period 1789-1939 through illustrated articles using museum and archive material. It is well indexed. |
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Irmgard Feldhaus
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Isa Bickmann reports that the German art historian Irmgard Feldhaus, founder director of the Clemens-Sels-Museum in Neuss (Rhineland), has died at the age of 90. To her credit is a wonderful and important collection of Symbolist art by Puvis des Chavannes, Odilon Redon, the Nabis, Jan Theodor Toorop, Georges Rodenbach, Fernand Khnopff, among others. It has one of the rare collections of four works by Gustave Moreau outside of Paris. See Dr Bickmann’s post on http://blog.arthistoricum.net/irmgard-feldhaus/. |
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