American masters of painting : being brief appreciations of some American painters, illustrated with examples of their work /

Published by the courtesy of the New York Sun.

Little journeys to the homes of eminent artists.

Mode of access: Internet.

Heretics /

Introductory remarks on the importance of othodoxy[!]--On the negative spirit.--On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and making the world small.--Mr. Bernard Shaw.--Mr. H. G. Wells and the giants.--Christmas and the s̆thetes.--Omar and the sacred vine.--The mildness of the yellow press.--The moods of Mr. George Moore.--On sandals and simplicity.--Science and the savages.--Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson.--Celts and celtophiles.--On certain modern writers and the institution of the family.--On smart novelists and the smart set.--On Mr. McCabe and a divine frivolity.--On the wit of Whistler.--The fallacy of the young nation.--Slum novelists and the slums.--Concluding remarks on the importance of orthodoxy.

Art and common sense /

Art and common sense.--Ingres: a pilgrimage to Montauban.--The magic of mere paint.--Contemporary European painting.--A note of French military painting.--The post-impressionist illusion.--A memorable exhibition.--Whistler.--Sargent.--Spanish art in Spain and elsewhere.--Secular types in Italian mural decoration.--Rodin.--Four leaders in American architecture.--J. Pierpont Morgan as a collector.

American portraits, 1875-1900,

Mark Twain.--Henry Adams.--Sidney Lainer.--James McNeill Whistler.--James Gellespie Blaine.--Grover Cleveland.--Henry James.--Joseph Jefferson.

Die Behandlung englischen Kulturgutes im Wiener fin de siècle:am Beispiel von Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Hermann Bahr und Peter Altenberg

This study explores the fascination which English culture represented in turn-of-the-century Vienna. The writers that are going to be discussed are the renowned Anglophile Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the more ambivalent Hermann Bahr and the idealizing, but Janus-faced Peter Altenberg. With the more widely known poet, prose writer and playwright, Hofmannsthal, individual aspects of his engagement with English culture have already been well researched; the same, however, cannot be said in the case of Hermann Bahr, whose extensive literary oeuvre has now largely been forgotten, and who has, instead, come to be valued as a prominent figure in the culture life of modernist Vienna, and Peter Altenberg, whose literary fame rests mainly on his prose poems and who, a legend in his life-time, has in recent years also increasingly attracted research interest as a phenomenon and ‘embodiment’ of the culture of his time: while their engagement with French literature, for example, has long received its due share of attention, their debt to English culture has, until now, been neglected. This thesis, therefore, sets out to explore Hofmannsthal’s, Bahr’s and Altenberg’s perception and portrayal of English civilization – ranging from English character and stereotypes, to what they saw as the principles of British society; it goes on to investigate the impulses they derive from Pre-Raphaelite art (Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Whistler) and the art and crafts-movement centred around William Morris, as well as their inspiration by the art criticism of John Ruskin and Walter Horatio Pater. In English literature one of the focal points will be their reading and evaluation of aestheticism as it was reflected in the life and writings of the Dubliner Oscar Wilde, who was perceived, by these Austrian authors, as a predominant figure of London’s cultural life. Similarly, they regarded his compatriot George Bernard Shaw as a key player in turn-of-the-century English (and European) culture. Hermann Bhar largely identified with him. Hofmannsthal, on the other hand, while having some reservations, acknowledged his importance and achievements, whereas Peter Altenberg saw in Shaw a model to reassure him, as his writings were becoming more openly didactic and even more miniaturistic than they had already been. He turned to Shaw, too, to explain and justify his new goal of making his texts more intelligent to a wider circle of readers.