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Abstract
This multi-author book sole-edited by Juliet Simpson with a 10,000-word Introduction, is the first study to explore the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fascination with Northern European Renaissance artists as so-called ‘primitives’ in a period spanning the 1850s to the early 1930s. It presents original new scholarship and perspectives on a rich, yet neglected history of Northern European Renaissance art and visual culture in the collecting, art and cultural imaginaries of the European nineteenth century to the1930s, to uncover its stories and appropriations in art, monuments, museums, texts and their reception as ‘primitive’ and in competing period constructs of national and cosmopolitan identity. In fifteen chapters by leading international scholars and curators of art history, history and comparative culture, the book shows that interest in early Renaissance Northern art and visual culture emerges as central to many of the period’s most urgent debates: about ownership of cultural patrimony and heritage, ideas of artistic ‘genius’ and inheritance; about new concepts of the modern, beauty and individual perception; feeling and expression and about art’s value in shifting and competing conceptions of ‘nation-hood’ , national and cultural identity across four closely interlinked ‘Northern’ European contexts: Britain, France, Belgium and Imperial Germany
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | Farnham/New York |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing Ltd |
Number of pages | 360 |
Volume | (in press) |
Publication status | Accepted/In press - 2018 |
Keywords
- ART Modernity
- cultural identity
- primitive
- memory-making
- nationalisms
- Northern Renaissances
- heritage
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'Gothic Modern, 1880-1945: Munch to Kollwitz'
Juliet Simpson (Invited speaker)
10 May 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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University of London
Juliet Simpson (Visiting researcher)
1 Oct 2019 → 30 Jun 2020Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution
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Staging Spectacles of Nation: Art and Identities of Patrimony in Early 20th-century Europe’
Juliet Simpson (Keynote speaker)
9 May 2018 → 11 May 2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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'Gothic Modernisms, 1880-1940s'
Baetens, J-D., Bauduin, T., von Bonsdorff, A-M. & Simpson, J., 2019, (Accepted/In press) Peter Lang AG. 310 p. (Critical Interactions and Relations in the Arts)Research output: Book/Report › Anthology or Edited Book › peer-review
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'Nordic Devotions: Gothic Art as Erotic Affect: J.-K. Huysmans' and Maurice Barres' Decadent "Devotio" Moderns'
Simpson, J., 2018, (Accepted/In press) Nordic Decadence: Reverberations from Paris and Voices from the North. Lyytikainen, P., Rossi, R. & Parente-Capkova, V. (eds.). London: Palgrave Macmillan, Vol. (in press). p. (in press) 15 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Science, Belief and the Art of Subjectivity: From Fromentin’s to Huysmans’s Modern Primitifs
Simpson, J., 2014, Between Light and Darkness: New Perspectives in Symbolism Research. Lahelma, M. (ed.). Helsinki: The Birch and the Star – Finnish Perspectives on the Long 19th Century, Vol. 10. p. 16-25Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Juliet Simpson
- Research Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities - Professor of Art History and Visual Arts
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