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Neil McWilliam

Neil McWilliam

Walter H. Annenberg Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art and Art History
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
n.mcwilliam@duke.edu
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

Scholarly Works - Books

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

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

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

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

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

Hogarth

Book · 1993 Cite