Neil Mcwilliam
Biographic Data
| ID | 692348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil Mcwilliam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcwilliam |
| SIGNATURE | MCWILLIAM N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Art, travail et démocratie de masse
Publié pour la première fois en 1988, cet article observe comment les débats menés sous la monarchie de Juillet sur l’utilité sociale de l’art ont contribué à façonner des attentes et des positions souvent contradictoires parmi les artistes, les critiques et l’administration républicaine après la révolution de Février 1848. Fréquemment rapprochée du soutien accordé aux associations ouvrières pendant les premiers mois de la République, l’insistanc…
The Purchase of the Past
Journal Article The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris c.1790–1890, by Tom Stammers Get access The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris, c.1790–1890, by Tom Stammers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020; pp. xii + 361. £90). Neil McWilliam Neil McWilliam Duke University, Durham, NC, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sc…
Past and Present
In November 1941 the Presses universitaires de France published a short guide to modern painting in its newly minted series ‘Que sais-je?’. The imprint had been launched earlier that year to offer succinct and authoritative surveys on topics of general interest such as early Mediterranean civilisation, astronomy, and beekeeping. All the more surprising, then, is the polemical tone of La peinture moderne, by the critic, curator, and educator Rober…
Catherine E. Clark. Paris and the Cliché of History
In his celebrated poem “Le Cygne” (1861), Charles Baudelaire laments that “old Paris is no more,” since “the form of a city changes more quickly, alas! than the human heart.” Efforts to arrest this inexorable flow of time are central to Catherine E. Clark’s stimulating and original discussion of photography’s role in fixing an image of the city across a century of transformation, culminating in what historian Louis Chevalier described as the “ass…
Dreams of Happiness
Towards a New French Renaissance
Le XIXe siècle au prisme des visual studies
Il y a une vingtaine d'années émergeait dans le paysage intellectuel international le champ des Visual culture studies.À un moment où le flux des images et leur puissance suscitaient de nouveaux questionnements, ce « champ mouvant » proposait de saisir non seulement l'image dans toutes ses dimensions et supports, mais la « fabrique visuelle de[s] société[s] » 1 , les dispositifs de vision et les modalités du regard.Une telle ambition supposait de…
Art in an Age of Civil Struggle 1848-1871. A Social History of Modern Art. Volume Four
Published barely four months before the author’s death in November 2008, one of a projected six-volume social history of western art from the Ancien Régime to the First World War stands, at least provisionally, as an epitaph to one of the most influential and productive careers in post-war art history. A seminal figure in opening up the discipline to other areas of historical enquiry, Albert Boime was central to the vigorous debate initiated duri…
Art, État et idéologies aux xixe et xxe siècles
Il fut un temps pas si lointain où s’intéresser à l’histoire politique et à l’histoire sociale de l’art vous faisait courir le risque d’être extradé, comme si les œuvres devaient par magie échapper à toute contingence pour assumer définitivement leur rôle de fétiche. De même, confronter les médias populaires aux œuvres majeures ou les entremêler (comme dans la réalité) semblait déplacé. Or, il s’agissait tout simplement d’écrire une histoire auss…
Conflicting Manifestations
Research Article| April 01 2004 Conflicting Manifestations: Parisian Commemoration of Joan of Arc and Etienne Dolet in the Early Third Republic Neil McWilliam Neil McWilliam Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2004) 27 (2): 381–418. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-27-2-381 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Neil McWilliam; Conflicting…
Champagne socialism
Fourier's vision of material gratification in works such as Le Nouveau Monde amoureux comprehensively overturns a suspicion of the destabilising effects of luxury inherent to classical European political theory. This article explores the basis upon which Fourier was able to achieve this revolution. It focuses on his theories of human psychology, his insistence on the positive effects of material inequality in a harmoniously regulated society, and…
Champagne socialism
Fourier's vision of material gratification in works such as Le Nouveau Monde amoureux comprehensively overturns a suspicion of the destabilising effects of luxury inherent to classical European political theory. This article explores the basis upon which Fourier was able to achieve this revolution. It focuses on his theories of human psychology, his insistence on the positive effects of material inequality in a harmoniously regulated society, and…
Race, Remembrance and ‘Revanche‘
Dreams of Happiness. Social Art and the French Left 1830-1850
Metropology
Prendergast, C., Paris and the Nineteenth Century (Blackwell, 1992), 283pp., 34 plates, £35.00, ISBN 0 631 15788 3 Rifkin, A., Street Noises. Parisian Pleasure 1900–1940 (Manchester University Press, 1993), 221pp., 28 plates, £35.00, ISBN 0 7190 3835 9
Art, Labour and Mass Democracy
Objets Retrouvés
La Sculpture française au XIXe siècle, Paris: Grand Palais, 10 April‐28 July 1986, 472 pp., 680 ills, 220 fr. Galerie David d'Angers by Vivienne Huchard , Angers, 1985, 135 pp., 133 ills, 70 fr. Statues de chair, sculptures de James Pradier, Paris: Musée du Luxembourg, 28 February4 May 1986, 404 pp., 272 ills, 170 fr. James Pradier: Correspondance edited by Douglas Siler , 2 vols, Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1984, 380 pp., 23 ills (vol. I), 377 pp., …
Making Faces
A Human Comedy: Physiognomy and Caricature in Nineteenth‐century Paris by Judith Wechsler , London, Thames & Hudson, 1982, 208 pp., 161 ills, £18.50 Physiognomy in the European Novel: Faces and Fortunes by Graeme Tytler , Princeton University Press, 1982, 436 pp., 19 ills, £23.40 Gavarni and the Critics by Therese Dolan Stamm , Ann Arbor, UMI Research Press, Studies in Fine Art Criticism, 1981, 216 pp., 20 ills, £36.75
David d'Angers and the Panthéon Commission
Look at Life
Hier pour Demain: Arts, Traditions et Patrimoine (Paris: Grand Palais), Paris: Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1980, 248 pp., 150 ills, 12 colour pls, c . £5 The Peasant in French Nineteenth‐century Art (Dublin: Douglas Hyde Gallery), Dublin, 1980, 192 pp., 25 ills, 100 small figs, £3.50 Peintres de la Bretagne: Découverte d'une Province by Denise Delouche, Paris: Klincksieck, and Rennes: Université de la Haute Bretagne, 1978, 402 pp…
Conflicting Manifestations
Research Article| April 01 2004 Conflicting Manifestations: Parisian Commemoration of Joan of Arc and Etienne Dolet in the Early Third Republic Neil McWilliam Neil McWilliam Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2004) 27 (2): 381–418. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-27-2-381 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Neil McWilliam; Conflicting…
Le XIXe siècle au prisme des visual studies
Il y a une vingtaine d'années émergeait dans le paysage intellectuel international le champ des Visual culture studies.À un moment où le flux des images et leur puissance suscitaient de nouveaux questionnements, ce « champ mouvant » proposait de saisir non seulement l'image dans toutes ses dimensions et supports, mais la « fabrique visuelle de[s] société[s] » 1 , les dispositifs de vision et les modalités du regard.Une telle ambition supposait de…
Race, Remembrance and ‘Revanche‘
Towards a New French Renaissance
Look at Life
Hier pour Demain: Arts, Traditions et Patrimoine (Paris: Grand Palais), Paris: Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1980, 248 pp., 150 ills, 12 colour pls, c . £5 The Peasant in French Nineteenth‐century Art (Dublin: Douglas Hyde Gallery), Dublin, 1980, 192 pp., 25 ills, 100 small figs, £3.50 Peintres de la Bretagne: Découverte d'une Province by Denise Delouche, Paris: Klincksieck, and Rennes: Université de la Haute Bretagne, 1978, 402 pp…
David d'Angers and the Panthéon Commission
Making Faces
A Human Comedy: Physiognomy and Caricature in Nineteenth‐century Paris by Judith Wechsler , London, Thames & Hudson, 1982, 208 pp., 161 ills, £18.50 Physiognomy in the European Novel: Faces and Fortunes by Graeme Tytler , Princeton University Press, 1982, 436 pp., 19 ills, £23.40 Gavarni and the Critics by Therese Dolan Stamm , Ann Arbor, UMI Research Press, Studies in Fine Art Criticism, 1981, 216 pp., 20 ills, £36.75
Objets Retrouvés
La Sculpture française au XIXe siècle, Paris: Grand Palais, 10 April‐28 July 1986, 472 pp., 680 ills, 220 fr. Galerie David d'Angers by Vivienne Huchard , Angers, 1985, 135 pp., 133 ills, 70 fr. Statues de chair, sculptures de James Pradier, Paris: Musée du Luxembourg, 28 February4 May 1986, 404 pp., 272 ills, 170 fr. James Pradier: Correspondance edited by Douglas Siler , 2 vols, Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1984, 380 pp., 23 ills (vol. I), 377 pp., …
Art, Labour and Mass Democracy
Metropology
Prendergast, C., Paris and the Nineteenth Century (Blackwell, 1992), 283pp., 34 plates, £35.00, ISBN 0 631 15788 3 Rifkin, A., Street Noises. Parisian Pleasure 1900–1940 (Manchester University Press, 1993), 221pp., 28 plates, £35.00, ISBN 0 7190 3835 9
Race, Remembrance and ‘Revanche‘
Dreams of Happiness. Social Art and the French Left 1830-1850
Champagne socialism
Fourier's vision of material gratification in works such as Le Nouveau Monde amoureux comprehensively overturns a suspicion of the destabilising effects of luxury inherent to classical European political theory. This article explores the basis upon which Fourier was able to achieve this revolution. It focuses on his theories of human psychology, his insistence on the positive effects of material inequality in a harmoniously regulated society, and…
Champagne socialism
Fourier's vision of material gratification in works such as Le Nouveau Monde amoureux comprehensively overturns a suspicion of the destabilising effects of luxury inherent to classical European political theory. This article explores the basis upon which Fourier was able to achieve this revolution. It focuses on his theories of human psychology, his insistence on the positive effects of material inequality in a harmoniously regulated society, and…
Conflicting Manifestations
Research Article| April 01 2004 Conflicting Manifestations: Parisian Commemoration of Joan of Arc and Etienne Dolet in the Early Third Republic Neil McWilliam Neil McWilliam Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2004) 27 (2): 381–418. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-27-2-381 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Neil McWilliam; Conflicting…
Art, État et idéologies aux xixe et xxe siècles
Il fut un temps pas si lointain où s’intéresser à l’histoire politique et à l’histoire sociale de l’art vous faisait courir le risque d’être extradé, comme si les œuvres devaient par magie échapper à toute contingence pour assumer définitivement leur rôle de fétiche. De même, confronter les médias populaires aux œuvres majeures ou les entremêler (comme dans la réalité) semblait déplacé. Or, il s’agissait tout simplement d’écrire une histoire auss…
Art in an Age of Civil Struggle 1848-1871. A Social History of Modern Art. Volume Four
Published barely four months before the author’s death in November 2008, one of a projected six-volume social history of western art from the Ancien Régime to the First World War stands, at least provisionally, as an epitaph to one of the most influential and productive careers in post-war art history. A seminal figure in opening up the discipline to other areas of historical enquiry, Albert Boime was central to the vigorous debate initiated duri…
Le XIXe siècle au prisme des visual studies
Il y a une vingtaine d'années émergeait dans le paysage intellectuel international le champ des Visual culture studies.À un moment où le flux des images et leur puissance suscitaient de nouveaux questionnements, ce « champ mouvant » proposait de saisir non seulement l'image dans toutes ses dimensions et supports, mais la « fabrique visuelle de[s] société[s] » 1 , les dispositifs de vision et les modalités du regard.Une telle ambition supposait de…
Dreams of Happiness
Towards a New French Renaissance
Catherine E. Clark. Paris and the Cliché of History
In his celebrated poem “Le Cygne” (1861), Charles Baudelaire laments that “old Paris is no more,” since “the form of a city changes more quickly, alas! than the human heart.” Efforts to arrest this inexorable flow of time are central to Catherine E. Clark’s stimulating and original discussion of photography’s role in fixing an image of the city across a century of transformation, culminating in what historian Louis Chevalier described as the “ass…
Past and Present
In November 1941 the Presses universitaires de France published a short guide to modern painting in its newly minted series ‘Que sais-je?’. The imprint had been launched earlier that year to offer succinct and authoritative surveys on topics of general interest such as early Mediterranean civilisation, astronomy, and beekeeping. All the more surprising, then, is the polemical tone of La peinture moderne, by the critic, curator, and educator Rober…
The Purchase of the Past
Journal Article The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris c.1790–1890, by Tom Stammers Get access The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris, c.1790–1890, by Tom Stammers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020; pp. xii + 361. £90). Neil McWilliam Neil McWilliam Duke University, Durham, NC, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sc…
Art, travail et démocratie de masse
Publié pour la première fois en 1988, cet article observe comment les débats menés sous la monarchie de Juillet sur l’utilité sociale de l’art ont contribué à façonner des attentes et des positions souvent contradictoires parmi les artistes, les critiques et l’administration républicaine après la révolution de Février 1848. Fréquemment rapprochée du soutien accordé aux associations ouvrières pendant les premiers mois de la République, l’insistanc…
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