1st Edition
James McNeill Whistler’s Reception and Artistic Legacy Inventing Whistlerism
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
Biography
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).
