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James McNeill Whistler’s Reception and Artistic Legacy

Inventing Whistlerism
Buch | Hardcover
260 Seiten
2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-11992-0 (ISBN)
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This book addresses the artistic phenomenon of “Whistlerism”, originated by the American painter James McNeill Whistler, and sheds light on this movement’s origins, its history and its wide-ranging impact on literature, poetry, art criticism, design and art philosophy.

Whistler’s students and followers adopted the artist’s visual language and helped to spread his work and his artistic theories during the late 19th century and early 20th century. The enduring nature of Whistlerism and its influence internationally allows it to be seen as a major artistic trend in Europe and the USA. The notion of Whistlerism offers a new prism to explore the history of art at the turn of the century. The particularity of this artistic phenomenon is that it emerged during the artist’s lifetime and held sway over international contemporary art, literature and art criticism between 1878 – which marks the date of Ruskin's trial and the starting point of the myth of the artist, marked by the emergence of various adjectives, such as “Whistlerian” – and the beginnings of the Great War.

This book presents the latest research on Whistlerism and introduces new perspectives on this subject throughout a range of chapters written by internationally recognized specialists of the painter. The topics deal with the visual arts as well as with literature and art criticism, but also with design, objects, scenography and the art of gardening.

This collection is ideal for researchers in modern art, design and visual studies.

Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada is a professor of 19th-century British literature and visual arts at the University of Rouen Normandie and a member of the research centre ERIAC. Laura Valette is an art historian. Her PhD thesis, defended at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2020, was entitled Whistlerism (1878-1914) and she was co-curator of the exhibition James Abbott McNeill Whistler: the butterfly effect (Rouen, France, 2024).

Introduction

Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada and Laura Valette

Part 1 – Whistlerism Across the Arts: Circulation between Criticism, Literature and Poetry

1. The Gentle Art of Critical Discourse: Framing the Digital Archive of Whistler’s Lifetime Criticism

Catherine Carter Goebel

2. Arrangement en couleur chair et noir: an Avant-garde Portrait by James McNeill Whistler and Théodore Duret

Midori Kono

3. Whistlerism: terminological manoeuvres between style, aesthetic theory and the polemics of criticism

Grischka Petri

4. “The painter must be pictorial always”: from the Unity of the Arts to the Specificity of the Medium: Oscar Wilde’s Whistlerian Heritage

Carole Delhorme

5. Le Culte du Nocturne: Baudelaire, Whistler and French Symbolism

Suzanne Singletary

Part 2 – Inter-Artistic Dialogues: Arrangements, Decoration and Design

6. Of Fans and Butterflies: The Folding of Subject and Medium in the Works of James McNeill Whistler and Stéphane Mallarmé

Kristina Åström

7. Sounding the Garden with Whistler, Mallarmé and Monet

Clare A.P. Willsdon

8. Whistler’s Gold: Japonisme, Classicism, and Aesthetic Value

Aileen Tsui

9. Whistler’s Quest for Beauty from “Colour and Picture Pattern” to Interior Design

Martine Lambert-Charbonnier

10. “A brilliant artistic shorthand”: Tracing Whistler’s Aesthetic in Polish Japonisme

Agnieszka Kluczewska-Wójcik

Part 3 – the “Butterfly effect”: The dissemination of Whistlerism in Europe

11. “All the fashion” – Whistler and the International Trend for Pastel 1800-1900

Freya Spoor

12. Whistler’s Shopfronts, the Grey-panel Phase and the London Impressionists

Anne Koval

13. Whistlerism and Polish landscape artists

Ewa Bobrowska

14. Portraits behind the Fog: Polish Art and Whistler

Urszula Kozakowska Zaucha

15. The Gentle Art of Making Portraits: Gustav Klimt’s Lessons in the Painting of James McNeill Whistler

Charlotte Healy

16. Conclusion: Whistler’s Legacy in Popular Culture

Daniel E. Sutherland

Erscheint lt. Verlag 15.6.2026
Reihe/Serie Routledge Research in Art History
Zusatzinfo 20 Halftones, color; 38 Halftones, black and white; 20 Illustrations, color; 38 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 174 x 246 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Allgemeines / Lexika
Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10 1-041-11992-5 / 1041119925
ISBN-13 978-1-041-11992-0 / 9781041119920
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