Mar 11, 2019 By: yunews
Dr. Marnin Young, associate professor and chair of art history at , has co-edited the second issue of , an online peer-reviewed journal, devoted to new research on 19-century art.
鈥淲e are delighted to publish part two of 鈥楾he Nineteenth Century,鈥 the beginning of a series of special issues in this online, peer-reviewed journal. The hard work of everyone involved has paid off with another set of groundbreaking essays on nineteenth-century art. Like the first issue, this one contains scholarship on a broad range of art objects from a number of countries: Belgian scenes of the harvest, the Eiffel Tower, Mallarm茅's art criticism, Degas and technology, and Delacroix鈥檚 The Lion Hunt at the World鈥檚 Fair of 1855. Although French art continues to be central, we wanted to emphasize the scholarly range of this issue by reproducing a detail from Adolph Menzel鈥檚 Iron Rolling Mill鈥攁 masterpiece of nineteenth-century German painting鈥攁s our cover image. We plan to publish similar issues in future editions.鈥
The contents include Alex Potts, 鈥淪ocial Theory and the Realist Impulse in Nineteenth-Century Art鈥; Hollis Clayson, 鈥淭he Ornamented Eiffel Tower: Awareness and Denial鈥; Margaret Werth, 鈥淢allarm茅 and Impressionism in 1876鈥; Michelle Foa, 鈥淭he Making of Degas: Duranty, Technology, and the Meaning of Materials in Later Nineteenth-Century Paris鈥; Allison Morehead, 鈥淢odernism and the Green Baize鈥; and Jennifer Olmsted, 鈥淚n Defense of Painting: Delacroix鈥檚 Lion Hunt at the 1855 Exposition Universelle.鈥 Dr. Young co-edited the issue with Dr. Bridget Alsdorf of Princeton University, with the editorial assistance of Luke Naessens, a graduate student at Princeton.
