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Neil McWilliam

Walter H. Annenberg Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art and Art History
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Box 90764, Dept. of Art and Art History, Durham, NC 27708-0764
114 S Buchanan Avenue, Bay 9, Dept of Art and Art History, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


The Aesthetics of Reaction: Tradition, Identity and the Visual Arts in France, c. 1900-1914

Book · December 31, 2021 A study of cultural conservatism and the radical right in pre-war France. ... Cite

L'Esthétique de la réaction. Tradition, foi, identité et l'art français (1900-1914)

Book · January 4, 2021 A study that explores the complex relationship between nationalism, traditionalism and the critique of modern culture in France in the decades preceding the First World War. ... Link to item Cite

The Aesthetics of Reaction: Tradition, Faith, Identity and the Visual Arts in France, c. 1900-1914

Book · 2021 This study focuses on anti-modernist artists, critics and political theorists in Belle Époque France hostile to secular democracy and its allegedly decadent culture of individualism. It examines their reassertion of social and artistic values which, they c ... Cite

Degenerate Art: Impressionism and the Specter of Crisis in French Painting

Chapter · 2021 Study of critical assessment of Impressionism in early 20th-century France as evidence of cultural decline. ... Cite

"Donner forme à une vie: Pierre-Auguste Renoir et la naissance des recherches sur l’impressionnisme"

Chapter · 2019 Historiography of posthumous study of Renoir in France ... Cite

“Traditional Views: Conservative Ideologies & Landscape Aesthetics in France around 1900”

Chapter · October 23, 2018 Analysis of political ideologies surrounding the revival of classical notions of the 'jardin à la française' in France, and the relationship between landscape revivalism and conservative philosophies of nature. ... Cite

On Reading Histoire de l’art as an Anglo-Saxon

Journal Article Histoire de l'art · 2018 Cite

“Roots: Landscapes of Nationalism in the Long Nineteenth Century”

Chapter · 2018 An examination of the relationship between the portrayal of landscape in painting and graphic illustration and its imputed relationship to a growing sense of national identity and national awareness ... Cite

L’Histoire de l’art en France 1890-1950: Acteurs, institutions, enjeux

Book · 2014 Volume of essays covering aspects of the historiography of art history in France from the 1890s to the 4th Republic. Based upon a series of colloquia organized for the Institut national d’histoire de l’art. ... Cite

Entretien avec Neil McWilliam

Other Florilettres · July 2012 Interview with Nathalie Jungermann on the correspondence of Emile Bernard. ... Cite

Art, état et idéologies au XIXe et XXe siècles

Journal Article Perspective · June 2012 Cite

Emile Bernard: Les Lettres d’un artiste (1884-1941)

Book · May 2012 Comprising some 430 letters, this selection of correspondence by the French painter Emile Bernard (1868- 1941) highlights one of the most complex and little known artists of the modern period. As a young member of the Parisian avant-garde during the 1880s, ... Cite

Emile Bernard: Au-delà de Pont-Aven

Other · January 2012 Catalog of an exhibition curated by N. McWilliam in the Salle Roberto Longhi, Galerie Colbert, Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris. Comprises two articles by N. McWilliam, and contributions by Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, Laura Karp-Lugo, and Dominiqu ... Cite

Au-delà de Pont-Aven: A la poursuite d’Emile Bernard

Chapter · January 2012 Featured Publication Cite

Emile Bernard, Vincent van Gogh et Octave Mirbeau: Critique de la critique

Journal Article Cahiers Octave Mirbeau · March 2011 Cite

Comment peindre un tableau fouriériste

Chapter · April 2010 Featured Publication Cite

L’Action française et la culture

Book · 2010 Featured Publication Cite

Lines of Attack

Book · 2010 Catalog for a Nasher museum exhibition on caricature and political cartoons, juxtaposing images that lampooned George W. Bush with cartoons that critiqued the 19th century French aristocracy. ... Cite

Emile Bernard’s Reactionary Idealism

Chapter · 2009 Featured Publication Cite

The Culture of Nationalism

Chapter · 2008 Featured Publication Cite

Nationalism and French Visual Culture, 1870-1914

Book · 2005 Collectively, the essays represent a new approach in treating nationalism as a common thread among political and philosophical movements generally seen in terms of their ideological differences. ... Cite

Conflicting Manifestations: Parisian Commemoration of Joan of Arc and Etienne Dolet in the Early Third Republic

Chapter · 2004 Historians tend to see the proliferation of monuments to exemplary individuals that characterizes the years 1880–1914 as symbolizing the triumph of a liberal humanist ideology at the heart of democratic republicanism. Yet the conflicts generated around cer ... Full text Link to item Cite

Exercises de style. La Critique devant les Envois de Rome 1800-1873

Journal Article D’Ingres à Degas. Rome et les artistes français 1803-1873 · 2003 Featured Publication Cite

Champagne Socialism: Luxury in Fourier's Utopia

Journal Article Modern and Contemporary France · May 2001 Cite

Gustave Courbet et la Franche-Comté. Besançon

Journal Article The Burlington Magazine · 2001 Full text Link to item Cite

Commemoration and the Politics of Iconoclasm: The Battle over "les Statues dreyfusardes", 1908-1910

Chapter · January 1, 1999 More than 130 papers given at the XXIXth International Congress of the History of Art (Amsterdam) 1996 have been compiled ... Cite

Mythologising Millet

Chapter · 1999 Cite

Craft, Commerce and the Contradictions of Anti-Capitalism: Reproducing the Applied Art of Jean Baffier

Chapter · 1997 Elizabeth A. Kaye specializes in communications as part of her coaching and consulting practice. She has edited Requirements for Certification since the 2000-01 edition. ... Cite

Race, Remembrance and 'Revanche': Commemorating the Franco-Prussian War in the Third Republic

Journal Article Art History: journal of the Association of Art Historians · 1996 Cite

Monuments, Martyrdom, and the Politics of Religion in the French Third Republic

Journal Article The Art Bulletin · 1995 The years around 1900 witnessed violent religious controversy in France, aggravated by political upheavals such as the Dreyfus Affair. This climate fostered a series of public monuments to historical figures identified as victims of confessional conflict i ... Full text Link to item Cite

Les David du XIXe siècle

Chapter · January 1, 1994 This book explores a range of social, institutional and discursive conditions in and through which criticism emerged and functioned in 19th-century France, and goes on to develop broader theoretical questions drawn from historical case ... ... Cite

Hogarth

Book · 1993 Cite

Presse, journalistes et critique d'art à Paris de 1849 à 1860

Journal Article Quarante-huit/Quatorze, Annual publication of the Musée d'Orsay · 1993 Cite

Le Paysan au Salon

Chapter · 1989 Cite

Art, Labour, and Mass Democracy: Debates on the Status of the Artist in France around 1848

Journal Article Art History: journal of the Association of Art Historians · March 1, 1988 Cite

Objets retrouvés

Journal Article Art History: journal of the Association of Art Historians · March 1, 1987 Cite

1848: 'La République des Arts'

Journal Article Oxford Art Journal · 1987 Full text Link to item Cite

The Sculptor of Modern Life

Journal Article Oxford Art Journal · 1987 Full text Link to item Cite

Country Life

Journal Article Oxford Art Journal · 1986 Full text Link to item Cite

Richard Wilson: Landscapes of Reaction

Journal Article History Workshop Journal · 1985 Cite

Making Faces

Journal Article Art History: journal of the Association of Art Historians · March 1, 1984 Cite

David d'Angers and the Panthéon Commission: Politics and Public Works under the July Monarchy'

Journal Article Art History: journal of the Association of Art Historians · December 1, 1982 Cite

Look At Life

Journal Article Art History: journal of the Association of Art Historians · December 1, 1981 Cite

Paris. David d'Angers, Maître d'Hébert

Journal Article The Burlington Magazine · 1980 Full text Link to item Cite

Preface

Other Oxford Art Journal · 1978 Full text Link to item Cite