（水） 14：00～16: 00 筑波大学総合研究棟 B 0110 Prof. JB Bul

公開学術講演会
2015 年 11 月 4 日（水） 14：00～16: 00
筑波大学総合研究棟 B 0110
（つくばセンターより「筑波大学循環」・「筑波大学中央行」バス＜第１エリア前＞バス停前）
Prof. J. B. Bullen (レディング大学名誉教授・
ロンドン大学ロイヤル・ホロウェイ校教授)
“The British Art World Turned Upside Down:
The Pre-Raphaelite Revolution”
（
「イギリス美術界が騒然：ラファエル前派の革命」
）
1848 年ロンドン、若い芸術家７名がロイヤル・アカデミーを中心とした美術界に反旗を翻し、ラファ
エル前派兄弟団を結成する。彼らは、芸術を自然の直接性に回帰させ、ラファエロ以前の中世世界の
知覚様式を再生させることを訴えた。だがこの挑戦は、プロテスタンティズムを重んじ、
「進歩」をモ
ットーとする当時の社会に脅威を与えるものとみなされる。ラファエル前派が目指した革命とは何だ
ったのか。本講演では、彼らが当時の価値観を転覆させて「新しい見方」を生み出した過程を明らか
にし、伝統的なジェンダーを拒絶して現実のセクシュアリティを反映した主題を選んだ背景にも踏み
込む（現在開催中の「リバプール国立美術館蔵英国の夢ラファエル前派展」出品作品に言及）
。
＊講演は英語で行なわれますが、講演内容を要約した日本語の資料を配布します。ご来聴を歓迎いたします。
本講演は、科学研究費助成事業基盤研究(C)「19 世紀英国の芸術家集団による恊働的実践——「古代人たち」から「エ
トラスカンズ」へ」
・筑波大学平成 27 年度革新的な教育プロジェクト（
「現代文化学位プログラム」のカリキュラムと
学位の質保証の構築に向けた取り組み）の支援による。
問合せ先：筑波大学人文社会系山口惠里子 email: [email protected]
Open Academic Lecture
Speaker: Prof. J. B. Bullen
(Professor Emeritus at the University of Reading, UK.)
Title: “The British Art World Turned Upside Down:
The Pre-Raphaelite Revolution”
Date: November 4 (Wednesday), 2015
14:00-16:00
Place: Univ. of Tsukuba, Laboratory of Advanced Research B Room 0110
Biography
J.B. Bullen, Professor Emeritus at the University of Reading, UK, graduated from Pembroke College,
Cambridge and was Junior Research Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. He has had a long-standing interest
in interdisciplinary studies from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century with particular focus on
the relationship between word and image.
As well as teaching at Reading and Royal Holloway, London, he has run many courses at Oxford
University where he is now teaching the Master’s course.
He is responsible for two international series: ‘Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship
between the Arts’ and ‘Writing and Culture in the long nineteenth century’, which he edits for Peter Lang
with Isobel Armstrong. Amongst his publications are: The Myth of the Renaissance in Nineteenth-Century
Writing (1994), The Pre-Raphaelite Body (1998), Byzantium Rediscovered (2003), and Rossetti: Painter and
Poet (2011), together with the entry for Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography. He is also an expert on Thomas Hardy. He has written two books on Hardy, The Expressive Eye
(1986) and Thomas Hardy: The World of His Novels (2013), has lectured regularly at the Thomas Hardy
Festival and has made appearances on radio and television. He now holds the London Chair of English
Literature and culture in the Department of English Literature, Royal Holloway College, Egham.
Abstract
The Pre-Raphaelites were one of the most aesthetically significant and socially defiant movements of the
British nineteenth century. Three young men, all of them about twenty-years old, challenged the
established Victorian art world in such a way, that they seemed to many contemporaries to be threatening
the foundations of polite society.
When Charles Dickens saw their work he was outraged. For him Pre-Raphaelitism posed a threat
to Protestantism and to progressive Victorian values. Pounded in the press, the fragile Pre-Raphaelite boat
would have sunk in 1850 had not the most powerful critical voice in England spoke up in its favour. John
Ruskin intervened, and they were saved.
But what were the Pre-Raphaelites really attempting to do? At first their ideas seems contradictory.
On the one hand they claimed that they wanted to return to the immediacy of the natural world. On the
other they wanted to go back to the deep past – the past before Raphael – to revive medieval modes of
perception and ancient values.
This lecture will examine how these young artists subverted contemporary attitudes and values to
produce new ways of seeing, and how, by rejecting the traditional sentimentality of gender relations they
chose controversial subjects derived from the sexual realities of Victorian life. After the Pre-Raphaelites,
British art was never quite the same. The lecture deals with some paintings from the “Pre-Raphaelite and
Romantic Painting from National Museums Liverpool” currently on exhibition in Japan.
Supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) on “Art Groups in 19th Century Britain: from the
Ancients to the Etruscans” (Society for the Promotion of Science). 筑波大学「平成 27 年度革新的な教育プロ
ジェクト「現代文化学学位プログラム」のカリキュラムと学位の質保証の構築に向けた取り組み」Master’s
Program and Doctoral Program in Modern Languages and Cultures, Graduate School of Humanities and
Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba. Contact: Eriko Yamaguchi [email protected]

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