Detailed Record
Artist and Journal of Home Culture, The;
vol 1 no 1, 15 Jan 1880 - vol 15 no 180, Dec 1894
then: Artist Photographer & Decorator, The; an illustrated monthly journal of applied art. vol 16 no 181, Jan 1895 - vol 17 no 204, Dec 1896
then: Artist, The; an illustrated monthly record of arts, crafts and industries. vol 17, Jan 1897 - vol 34 no 3 [vol 1 ns], Jul 1902//
then: Artist, The; an illustrated monthly record of arts, crafts and industries. vol 17, Jan 1897 - vol 34 no 3 [vol 1 ns], Jul 1902//
London,Middlesex
Editor:
Aubyn Bernard Rochfort Trevor Battye (Jan 1899 - May 1900)
Charles Philip Castle Kains-Jackson (1888 - 1894)
Viscount Mountmorres (May 1894 - Sep 1894)
Charles Philip Castle Kains-Jackson (1888 - 1894)
Viscount Mountmorres (May 1894 - Sep 1894)
Proprietor:
Otto Ltd
Publisher:
Archibald Constable and Co (Oct 1894 - 1895)
A. Constable (May 1894 - Sep 1894)
H. Floury (Paris Jan 1898+)
Gardner, Wells, Darton and Co (Oct 1883 - Apr 1894)
Otto Ltd (Apr 1902)
William Reeves (Jan 1880 - Sep 1883)
Truslove and Comba (New York Jan 1898+)
A. Constable (May 1894 - Sep 1894)
H. Floury (Paris Jan 1898+)
Gardner, Wells, Darton and Co (Oct 1883 - Apr 1894)
Otto Ltd (Apr 1902)
William Reeves (Jan 1880 - Sep 1883)
Truslove and Comba (New York Jan 1898+)
Printer:
Acme Tone Engraving Co Ltd (Jun 1899 - Sep 1901)
Blackfriars Printing and Publishing Co (Aug 1886 - 1888)
Charles Whittingham and Co (Oct 1894 - Dec 1896)
The Cranford Press (Allen Carruthers Jan 1897 - Nov 1897)
J.C. Durant (Feb 1885 - Feb 1886)
George Palman and Sons (Oct 1901 - Apr 1902)
Harrison and Sons (Dec 1897 - Aug 1898)
Hazell, Watson and Viney (1888 - Sep 1894)
William John Perry (Jan 1880 - Jan 1885)
William Reeves (Mar 1886 - Jul 1886; 1888 - Sep 1894)
Wertheimer, Lea and Co (Sep 1898 - May 1899)
Blackfriars Printing and Publishing Co (Aug 1886 - 1888)
Charles Whittingham and Co (Oct 1894 - Dec 1896)
The Cranford Press (Allen Carruthers Jan 1897 - Nov 1897)
J.C. Durant (Feb 1885 - Feb 1886)
George Palman and Sons (Oct 1901 - Apr 1902)
Harrison and Sons (Dec 1897 - Aug 1898)
Hazell, Watson and Viney (1888 - Sep 1894)
William John Perry (Jan 1880 - Jan 1885)
William Reeves (Mar 1886 - Jul 1886; 1888 - Sep 1894)
Wertheimer, Lea and Co (Sep 1898 - May 1899)
Contributors:
Alfred Douglas (Lord)
John Gray
Gertrude Hudson
J.G. Nicholson
Andre Raffalovich
Rolfe (Father)
J.A. Symonds
Gleeson White
Theodore Wratislaw
John Gray
Gertrude Hudson
J.G. Nicholson
Andre Raffalovich
Rolfe (Father)
J.A. Symonds
Gleeson White
Theodore Wratislaw
Size:
25cm, 32pp (15 Jan 1880-Dec 1894); 30cm (Jan 1895-Oct 1901); 27cm, 38pp
Price:
6d (Jan 1880, Oct 1894 - Dec 1897); 7d st (1895); 1s (Jan 1898 - 1902)
Frequency:
monthly
Illustration:
engravings, lithographs (1899); photographs, engravings
Issued by:
Arts Schools of EnglandSociety of Designers
Indexing:
T of C/no (Feb 1880 - Sep 1894); index/vol
Departments:
correspondence, exhibitions, news, notes & queries, obituaries, poetry, lectures/papers/speeches and reports, academies and institutes, art sales, local/domestic art, architecture, photographic notes, collated opinion on art work, art abroad, legal cases, art trades/literature, advertisements, kalender [sic], notices of exhibitions, essays on artists, teaching of art/photography, hints in correspondence, large number of art pieces, "Female School of Art", "Art in the House", "Ladies Column"
Sources:
BUCOP.; Collins, “Art Magazines Before 1901”: 198-205.; COPAC; Mitchell.; Mitchell, "Crafting Generic Networks".; Roberts, Helene E. "British Art Periodicals of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries." VPN no 9 (Jul 1970): 2-56.; UMI British Periodicals in the Creative Arts.; Uffelman, 1992.
Histories:
Fletcher, I. "Decadence and the little magazines". Decadence and the 1890s. Assoc. ed. Ian Fletcher. New York, 1979.; Brake, “Deaths of Heroes”, pp.165-93.; Brake, Media and Identities.; Brake, Print in Transition.; Codell, "Art Periodicals" p.387.
Comments:
"If it be a true, as well as trite, saying that Art is long, the writer of such a summary of what passes 'from month to month' in Art as is here begun must feel at the outset that it is not less true, if it be less trite, that Art is broad. Every day, in our current English life, to take no account of other countries, the breadth of Art is increasingly realized, and its influence extending more and more into our ordinary existence. While picture painting, which is nearly all that would have been understood, some years ago, in the conversational use of the word 'art,' grows on luxuriantly in the richer soil which is needful for the support of so noble a produce,..." (From Month to Month no 1, p.1).
The cover and caption titles occasionally vary from title-page. They occasionally read: The Artist; a monthly paper for workers, teachers, students, and amateurs in art, for the art trades, and for art in the house; The Artist, a monthly newspaper for the art world and guide for all readers to current thought, event and work in matters of art and taste, academic and domestic; 'The Artist', an illustrated monthly journal of applied art; The Artist, and illustrated monthly record of arts, crafts and industries; The Artist, Photographer and Decorator, an illustrated monthly journal of applied art. Supplements were occasionally issued.
This publication was the authorized official organ of the Art Schools of England, 1897-1902. It includes proceedings for the Society of Designers. There is also a French edition, and also an American edition, vol 23-32 (1898-1902).
Ironically, the Artist and Journal of Home Culture was unillustrated (Mitchell, "Crafting", 86).
"This well-illustrated British art magazine kept its readers up to date on the latest activities of art schools and societies and art museums and galleries, giving special attention to art sales and exhibitions in various cities in Britain and Europe. It reviewed new art books and featured illustrated articles on furniture, architecture, sculpture, ceramics and various decorative items such as wall paper and book plates, as well as on painting and other art forms. Thomas Gainsborough, Auguste Rodin, and Botticelli were among the well-known artists receiving attention in the Artist" (UMI 'British Periodicals in the Creative Arts').
Brake: "The lurching transformations of The Artist between May and October 1894 suggest that crises of both finance and identity were provoked by the sacking of its editor. Initially Kains-Jackson was replaced with no explanation other than the addition of a strap headline added to an abbreviated masthead in May: 'Edited by Viscount Mountmorres'" ("Print Transitions" 116).
"The Artist - an illustrated monthly journal of applied art managed to survive from 1880 until 1902 because it was topical and reasonable, still only costing six pence in 1895 and as Quiz said, it 'left the older and higher priced magazines far in the rear' " (Collins, Michael; p.204).
"...[A] late Victorian periodical which addresses a telling succession of dominant reader groups, in which gender and diverse categories of 'artist' are primary variables. The profile has emerged from the identification of one 'centre' at a specific period (1888?-1894), under [the editorship of Kains-Jackson], in which the journal seeks to integrate and establish a visible gay discourse, a gay tradition, and a gay interpretative community of readers before 1895 and the Wilde trials. Although The Artist is distinctive among nineteenth-century sites of homosexual discourse, editor-led as it is, it is not unique" (Brake, Laurel; 271). This periodical was regarded as "class journalism," which appealed to a niche market of artists including women.
Codell explains that Constable taking over publishing duties prompted the title changes from Artist and Journal of Home Culture to Artist: Photographer and Decorator (387).
During that period, journalists included Lord Alfred Douglas, John Gray, J. G. Nicholson, Andre Raffalovich, Fr. Rolfe, J. A. Symonds, Gleeson White, and Theodore Wratislaw.
It was "syndicated in New York and Paris" in 1898 (Codell 387).
The cover and caption titles occasionally vary from title-page. They occasionally read: The Artist; a monthly paper for workers, teachers, students, and amateurs in art, for the art trades, and for art in the house; The Artist, a monthly newspaper for the art world and guide for all readers to current thought, event and work in matters of art and taste, academic and domestic; 'The Artist', an illustrated monthly journal of applied art; The Artist, and illustrated monthly record of arts, crafts and industries; The Artist, Photographer and Decorator, an illustrated monthly journal of applied art. Supplements were occasionally issued.
This publication was the authorized official organ of the Art Schools of England, 1897-1902. It includes proceedings for the Society of Designers. There is also a French edition, and also an American edition, vol 23-32 (1898-1902).
Ironically, the Artist and Journal of Home Culture was unillustrated (Mitchell, "Crafting", 86).
"This well-illustrated British art magazine kept its readers up to date on the latest activities of art schools and societies and art museums and galleries, giving special attention to art sales and exhibitions in various cities in Britain and Europe. It reviewed new art books and featured illustrated articles on furniture, architecture, sculpture, ceramics and various decorative items such as wall paper and book plates, as well as on painting and other art forms. Thomas Gainsborough, Auguste Rodin, and Botticelli were among the well-known artists receiving attention in the Artist" (UMI 'British Periodicals in the Creative Arts').
Brake: "The lurching transformations of The Artist between May and October 1894 suggest that crises of both finance and identity were provoked by the sacking of its editor. Initially Kains-Jackson was replaced with no explanation other than the addition of a strap headline added to an abbreviated masthead in May: 'Edited by Viscount Mountmorres'" ("Print Transitions" 116).
"The Artist - an illustrated monthly journal of applied art managed to survive from 1880 until 1902 because it was topical and reasonable, still only costing six pence in 1895 and as Quiz said, it 'left the older and higher priced magazines far in the rear' " (Collins, Michael; p.204).
"...[A] late Victorian periodical which addresses a telling succession of dominant reader groups, in which gender and diverse categories of 'artist' are primary variables. The profile has emerged from the identification of one 'centre' at a specific period (1888?-1894), under [the editorship of Kains-Jackson], in which the journal seeks to integrate and establish a visible gay discourse, a gay tradition, and a gay interpretative community of readers before 1895 and the Wilde trials. Although The Artist is distinctive among nineteenth-century sites of homosexual discourse, editor-led as it is, it is not unique" (Brake, Laurel; 271). This periodical was regarded as "class journalism," which appealed to a niche market of artists including women.
Codell explains that Constable taking over publishing duties prompted the title changes from Artist and Journal of Home Culture to Artist: Photographer and Decorator (387).
During that period, journalists included Lord Alfred Douglas, John Gray, J. G. Nicholson, Andre Raffalovich, Fr. Rolfe, J. A. Symonds, Gleeson White, and Theodore Wratislaw.
It was "syndicated in New York and Paris" in 1898 (Codell 387).
Location:
partial runs: LO/N-1 A vols 1+ (15 Jan 1880-1902), CA/U-1 A 16:181-vol 33, 1:3[ns] (1895-1902), QZ/P-1 vol 24-vol 1[ns] (1899-1902), OX/U-1 A (1880-1902); N.America: ULS. The full text is available at ProQuest and Google Books (1880, 1882)
Reproduced by permission, Cambridge University Library
Reproduced by permission, British Library
Google Books; original from Oxford University
Google Books; original from Oxford University
Google Books; original from Oxford University
Google Books; original from Oxford University