Peer-Reviewed Articles by Caitlin Doley
Aspectus: A Journal of Visual Culture, 2022
This collection of short essays is an opportunity for members of the University of York's History... more This collection of short essays is an opportunity for members of the University of York's History of Art department, including current postgraduate students and alumni, to reflect on the York Art Gallery's 2022 exhibition Beyond Bloomsbury: Life, Love and Legacy. Aspectus chose to facilitate a conversation about this exhibition for our fourth issue for several reasons. First, we wished to generate conversation and engagement with a York-based exhibition and to highlight the strength of York's excellent Art Gallery. Second, British art is one of our department's great strengths, and this presented us with an opportunity to give a platform to many voices in the field. Finally, we hope that this conversation piece creates a diversity of manners of writing in the journal. It is a space for creative expression and more personal writing that falls outside the traditional confines of academic writing, but still maintains strong standards of criticism and analysis. The four authors whose work follows below have chosen a variety of artists and themes from the exhibition to focus on. They share an interest in class dynamics, the search for balance between biographical study and visual analysis, and the limitations and potentials of curatorial practice in a group show. The relevance of these themes reach far beyond this exhibition and are key to discussions facing the discipline of art history today.
Age, Culture, Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
When one begins looking for them in the visual culture of the nineteenth century, aging and aged ... more When one begins looking for them in the visual culture of the nineteenth century, aging and aged bodies crop up in a variety of media, styles, and contexts: in drawings, paintings, and sculptures; in popular history paintings and more obscure aesthetic experiments; in artists’ biographies and critics’ writings. However, the discipline of art history has yet to engage with the master identity that is old age, and practitioners of age studies have yet to truly utilize visual primary sources. This article breaks new scholarly ground by interrogating the relationship between old age and the visual in one of the most famous and best-loved representations of an elderly person in nineteenth-century painting: James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s 'Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter’s Mother' (1871). The sitter for Whistler’s painting was his then sixty-seven-year-old mother, Anna McNeill Whistler. In this article, I propose that it was Anna’s aged body that caused or, rather, enabled Whistler to have an artistic revelation that was to define his approach to the visual and aesthetics, and propel him to notorious fame.
Aspectus: A Journal of Visual Culture, Oct 14, 2020
SUSIE BECKHAM, EDITOR
On 12-13 December 2019, the University of York hosted the 'Pre-Raphaelite ... more SUSIE BECKHAM, EDITOR
On 12-13 December 2019, the University of York hosted the 'Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Making Art' conference, held in conjunction with the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition 'Pre-Raphaelite Sisters' that ran from 17 October 2019 to 26 January 2020. This 'Aspectus' project, titled 'Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: In Conversation', operated as an opportunity for staff, students, and alumni from the History of Art department of the University of York to continue their consideration of the exhibition and its subject matter.
Immediations: The Courtauld Institute of Art's Journal of Postgraduate Research, 2019
This article attends to the complexities of what the French painter James Jacques Joseph Tissot (... more This article attends to the complexities of what the French painter James Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836-1902) does with masculinity in association with the British military in a selection of paintings produced during his London Period (1871-1882). The article’s central proposition is that in The Thames (1876) and Portsmouth Dockyard (c.1877), Tissot constructs a legible project that explores the relationship between military bodies and the larger social body. The findings of this article result in a novel understanding of Tissot as a more subversive creative figure than previous literature has allowed, one who was interested in interrogating and problematising the ability of military association to guarantee respectable masculinity, and who recognised that military men could make or break the social body that hosted them.
Book Reviews by Caitlin Doley
Review of 'Critical Humanities and Ageing: Forging Interdisciplinary Dialogues'
Age, Culture, Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Aspectus: A Journal of Visual Culture, 2021
Published at a time when the effects of climate change are terrifyingly visible around the world,... more Published at a time when the effects of climate change are terrifyingly visible around the world, British Art and the Environment: Changes, Challenges, and Responses Since the Industrial Revolution is a highly apposite text that encourages consideration of how art can inform and impact the history of the interaction between Britons and their environment. Whilst artists' concern for their environment-understood here as the natural world in which they live and work-is often thought to be a relatively recent phenomenon that commenced in the midtwentieth century, this compendious edited volume demonstrates how art can in fact be used to reveal that the relationship between Britons and their environment has a far more extensive and, importantly, thought-provoking history.
Review of 'The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris c. 1790-1890' by Tom Stammers
The British Journal for the History of Science, 2021
Age, Culture, Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
Papers by Caitlin Doley
In Conversation: Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Models, artists, Muses
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Peer-Reviewed Articles by Caitlin Doley
On 12-13 December 2019, the University of York hosted the 'Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Making Art' conference, held in conjunction with the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition 'Pre-Raphaelite Sisters' that ran from 17 October 2019 to 26 January 2020. This 'Aspectus' project, titled 'Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: In Conversation', operated as an opportunity for staff, students, and alumni from the History of Art department of the University of York to continue their consideration of the exhibition and its subject matter.
Book Reviews by Caitlin Doley
Papers by Caitlin Doley
On 12-13 December 2019, the University of York hosted the 'Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Making Art' conference, held in conjunction with the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition 'Pre-Raphaelite Sisters' that ran from 17 October 2019 to 26 January 2020. This 'Aspectus' project, titled 'Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: In Conversation', operated as an opportunity for staff, students, and alumni from the History of Art department of the University of York to continue their consideration of the exhibition and its subject matter.