ABSTRACT
First Published in 1988, Post-impressionists in England documents the response of English taste to modern French art from the first Post-Impressionist Exhibition in 1910 to the outbreak of the First World War. The notion of ‘Post-Impressionism’, unlike its earlier counterpart, Impressionism, was an exclusively English contribution to art history. Originally used to denote the work of Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse and the Fauve painters, it rapidly assimilated Futurism, Cubism and recent English work like Vorticism. By focusing on one aspect of an important and complex period in British cultural history, J.B. Bullen illuminates not only aesthetic questions but also the way in which those aesthetic issues were determined and conditioned by social and political concerns.
Changes in English attitudes to art in this period were so rapid and were modified with such speed that the author has taken a strictly chronological approach to the subject. He sets out clearly the month-by-month developments in English attitudes and traces in detail the debates about modernism in England. To make matters clearer the book is divided into three major parts, each complementary to the others. The introduction surveys the period as a whole and places attitudes to art in the general context of the culture of the time. In the second part the extracts provide selected, concrete and particular examples of the huge range of material upon which the findings of the introduction are based; the writers represented include Roger Fry, Bernard Berenson, Desmond McCarthy, John singer Sargent, Walter Sickert, Clive Bell, Virginia Woolf and Wyndham Lewis. In the third part a chronology sets out in tabular form month-by-month events- exhibitions and major publications- as they occurred in Britain and in France. This is a must read for scholars and researchers of British cultural history and art history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |54 pages
January 1905—October 1910
chapter 2|3 pages
Unsigned review, ‘The Last Phase of Impressionism’
chapter 6|7 pages
Julius Meier-Graefe, Modern Art
chapter 7|17 pages
Maurice Denis, ‘Cézanne’, trans. Roger Fry, Burlington Magazine
chapter 9|5 pages
Unsigned review (probably by Roger Fry), ‘Modern French Pictures at Brighton’
part |59 pages
No Vember—December 1910
chapter 10|6 pages
Desmond MacCarthy, ‘The Post-Impressionists’
chapter 11|5 pages
Robert Ross, ‘The Post-Impressionists at the Grafton: The Twilight of the Idols’
chapter 12|2 pages
Unsigned review, ‘Paint Run Mad: at Grafton Galleries’
chapter 16|4 pages
Sir William Blake Richmond, Tost-Impressionists'
chapter 19|1 pages
H.M. Bateman, Tost-Impressions of the Post-Impressionists'
chapter 20|5 pages
Desmond MacCarthy, ‘The Exhibition at the Grafton Galleries: Gauguin and Van Gogh’
chapter 22|3 pages
Jacob Tonson [Arnold Bennett], ‘Books and Persons’
chapter 24|3 pages
Spencer Frederick Gore, ‘Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh &c., at the Grafton Galleries’
part |92 pages
January–October 1911
chapter 29|13 pages
Walter Richard Sickert, ‘Post-Impressionists’
chapter 32|2 pages
Unsigned review, ‘An Art Victory: Triumphant Exit of the Post-Impressionists’
chapter 33|3 pages
C.J. Holmes, Introduction to Notes on the Post-Impressionist Painters
part |46 pages
November 1911-February 1912
chapter 49|2 pages
Walter Sickert, ‘The Old Ladies of Etching-Needle Street’
chapter 52|22 pages
D. S. MacColl, ‘A Year of Post-Impressionism’
part |31 pages
Futurism At The Sackville Gallery, March 1912
chapter 54|4 pages
P.G. K[onody], ‘The Italian Futurists: Nightmare Exhibition at the Sackville Gallery’
chapter 57|4 pages
Frank Rutter, ‘Round the Galleries: The Futurist Painters’
chapter 59|3 pages
J.B. M[anson], ‘The Italian Futurists and the X-Rays in Art’
chapter 60|6 pages
Walter Sickert, ‘The Futurist “Devil-among-the-T ailors” ’
chapter 61|6 pages
Anthony M. Ludovici, from ‘The Italian Futurists and their Traditionalism’
part |26 pages
April-November 1912
chapter 62|3 pages
Roger Fry, ‘The International Society at the Grafton Gallery'
chapter 64|3 pages
Unsigned review (probably by Robert Ross), `M. Picasso's Drawings'
chapter 65|2 pages
Unsigned review, ‘M. Pablo Picasso and Mr Joseph Simpson at the Stafford Gallery’
chapter 67|6 pages
Huntly Carter, `The New Spirit in Painting'
part |63 pages
The Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition, 5 October–31 December 1912
chapter 69|1 pages
Roger Fry, Introduction to the catalogue of the second Post-Impressionist exhibition
chapter 70|3 pages
Clive Bell, ‘The English Group’
chapter 71|4 pages
Roger Fry, ‘The French Group’
chapter 72|3 pages
Boris von Anrep, ‘The Russian Group’
chapter 73|2 pages
Leonard Woolf, Beginning Again: An Autobiography of the Years 1911–1918
chapter 74|4 pages
Unsigned review (probably by Robert Ross), ‘A Post-Impressionist Exhibition: Matisse and Picasso’
chapter 76|5 pages
P.G. Konody, ‘Art and Artists – More Post-Impressionism at the Grafton’
chapter 78|4 pages
Desmond MacCarthy, ‘Kant and Post-Impressionism’
chapter 79|5 pages
Unsigned review (probably by Robert Ross), ‘The Post Impressionists: Some French and Work’
chapter 80|4 pages
C.H. Collins Baker, ‘Post-Impressionist Prefaces’
chapter 81|4 pages
P.G. Konody, ‘Art and Artists: English Post-Impressionists’
chapter 82|6 pages
Roger Fry, ‘Art: The Grafton Gallery: an Apologia’
chapter 84|4 pages
Anthony M. Ludovici, ‘Art: the Pot-Boiler Paramount’
chapter 85|6 pages
Rupert Brooke, Cambridge Magazine
part |56 pages
January–October 1913
chapter 87|3 pages
Unsigned review (probably by Robert Ross), ‘Céezanne and the Post-Impressionists’
chapter 88|3 pages
P.G. Konody, ‘Art and Artists: More Post-Impressionists’
chapter 89|5 pages
O. Raymond Drey, ‘Post-Impressionism: the Character of the Movement’
chapter 90|9 pages
Clive Bell, ‘Post-Impressionism and Aesthetics’
chapter 91|5 pages
Anthony M. Ludovici on Van Gogh
chapter 98|6 pages
Frank Rutter, Foreword to the catalogue of the Post-Impressionist and Futurist Exhibition
part |26 pages
November 1913–March 1914