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Henri Bergson
image
immanence
intuition
John Duncan Fergusson
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perception
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representation
Roger Fry
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Vanessa Bell
Wyndham Lewis
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- ISBN 9781474492386
- Dimensions: 210 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 22 Nov 2023
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Demonstrates the central role of Bergson for modernist art and intellectual history in the UK
Brings to light new evidence of British artists' direct engagement with Bergson, opening new avenues of research and interpretation for the artists Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, John Duncan Fergusson, and artist-writers Roger Fry and Wyndham Lewis
Based on archival material in Paris and US not previously accessed? (Biblioteque Jacques Doucet, Isabella Gardner Museum, Boston and Wyndham Lewis' marginalia in his editions of Bergson's texts at The University of Texas at Austin), in addition to primary sources in UK (Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, London, and Strathclyde), and US (Universities of Cornell and Texas at Austin)
Changes art history's standard readings of these artists as the evidence of their knowledge of and engagement with Bergson is irrefutable
Explores concepts of duration, intuition, creativity; the image and perception as they were formulated by Bergson and understood by his contemporaries
Demonstrates Bergson's relevance to key problematics for Art History: temporality, intuition, subjectivity, representation, the image.
Charlotte de Mille shows that the reception of the philosophy of Henri Bergson by British artists and critics was far more wide spread and of far greater importance in the UK than has been previously thought.
Based on archival material in Paris and the US, not all previously accessed, along with primary UK sources, she opens new avenues of research and interpretation on the work of artists Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, John Duncan Fergusson and artist-writers Roger Fry and Wyndham Lewis.
De Mille demonstrates the profound impact of Bergson's work in UK culture immediately prior to World War One. Her interdisciplinary approach integrates philosophy, art criticism and art history. An Epilogue considers the proximity of Bergson's thought on temporality, perception, intuition and subjectivity to art history, from Alois Riegl and Aby Warburg, to practitioners today.
Charlotte de Mille is Associate Lecturer at The Courtauld Institute and curates The Courtauld Gallery's music programme. She is co-editor with John O’ Maoilearca of Bergson and the Art of Immanence (EUP, 2013) and editor of Music and Modernism, c. 1849–1950 (CSP, 2011). The Bloomsbury Handbook to Music and Art, co-edited with Sarah Mahler Kraaz will be published with Bloomsbury Academic in 2023.
