Bollingen Foundation
The Bollingen Foundation was an educational foundation set up along the lines of a university press in 1945. It was named after Bollingen Tower, Carl Jung's country home in Bollingen, Switzerland. Funding was provided by Paul Mellon and his wife Mary Conover Mellon. The Foundation became inactive in 1968, and its publications were later re-issued by Princeton University Press.
History
Initially the foundation was dedicated to the dissemination of Jung's work, which was a particular interest of Mary Conover Mellon. The Bollingen Series of books that it sponsored now includes more than 250 related volumes. The Bollingen Foundation also awarded more than 300 fellowships. These fellowships were an important, continuing source of funding for poets like Alexis Leger and Marianne Moore, scholars like Károly Kerényi and Mircea Eliade, artists like Isamu Noguchi, among many others. The Foundation also sponsored the A. W. Mellon lectures at the National Gallery of Art.In 1948, the foundation donated $10,000 to the Library of Congress to be used toward a $1,000 Bollingen Prize for the best poetry each year. The Library of Congress fellows, who in that year included T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden and Conrad Aiken, gave the 1949 prize to Ezra Pound for his 1948 Pisan Cantos. Their choice was highly controversial, in particular because of Pound's fascist and anti-Semitic politics. Following the publication of two highly negative articles by Robert Hillyer in the Saturday Review of Literature, the United States Congress passed a resolution that effectively discontinued the involvement of the Library of Congress with the prize. The remaining funds were returned to the Foundation. In 1950, the Bollingen Prize was continued under the auspices of the Yale University Library, which awarded the 1950 prize to Wallace Stevens.
In 1968, the Foundation became inactive. It was largely subsumed into the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which continued funding of the Bollingen Prize. The Bollingen Series was given to Princeton University Press to carry on and complete. Over its lifetime, the Bollingen Foundation had expended about $20 million. Thomas Bender has written,
Bollingen Series
A great many texts that were issued in the original Pantheon Books version of the Bollingen Series and in early editions by Princeton University Press are now out of print. The Princeton Press site does not provide a comprehensive list, and is missing some of the key texts in the series and some of the grandest in vision, e.g. The Egyptian Religious Texts series. A list of the works in the series, complete to 1982, appears as an appendix to William McGuire's book, pp. 295–309. The list below is based on McGuire's list and information appearing in the individual volumes, with help from the and from .Numbers 1 to 34
Number 35: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
This is the only part of the Bollingen Series that continues to produce new volumes.| Title | Volume Title | Author | Translator | Editor | ISBN | Year | Bollingen Series No. |
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry - 1952 | Jacques Maritain | 0-691-09789-5 | 1953 | 35:1 | ||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | - 1953 | Kenneth Clark | 1956 | 35:2 | |||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | The Art of Sculpture - 1954 | Herbert Read | 1956, 1961 | 35:3 | |||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Painting and Reality - 1955 | Etienne Gilson | 1957, 1968 | 35:4 | |||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation - 1956 | E. H. Gombrich | 1960, 1961 | 35:5 | |||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | The Eternal Present: The Beginnings of Art - 1957 | S. Giedion | 1962 | 35:6.1 | |||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | The Eternal Present: The Beginnings of Architecture - 1957 | S. Giedion | 1964 | 35:6.2 | |||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Nicolas Poussin - 1958, 2 volumes, boxed | Anthony Blunt | 1967 | 35:7.1-2 | |||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Of Divers Arts - 1959 | Naum Gabo | 1962 | 35:8 | |||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Horace Walpole - 1960 | Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis | 1960 | 35:9 | |||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Christian Iconography: A Study of Its Origins - 1961 | André Grabar | 1968 | 35:10 | |||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Blake and Tradition - 1962, 2 volumes, boxed | Kathleen Raine | 1968 | 35:11.1-2 | |||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | The Portrait in the Renaissance - 1963 | John Pope-Hennessy | 1966 | 35:12 | |||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | On Quality in Art: Criteria of Excellence, Past and Present - 1964 | Jakob Rosenberg | 1967 | 35:13 | |||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | The Origins of Romanticism - 1965 | Isaiah Berlin | see 35:45 | ||||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Visionary and Dreamer, Two Poetic Painters: Samuel Palmer and Edward Burne-Jones - 1966 | David Cecil | 1969 | 35:15 | |||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Mnemosyne: The Parallel between Literature and the Visual Arts - 1967 | Mario Praz | 0-691-09857-3 | 1970 | 35:16 | ||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Imaginative Literature and Painting - 1968 | Stephen Spender | none | ||||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Art as a Mode of Knowledge - 1969 | Jacob Bronowski | MIT | ||||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | A History of Building Types - 1970 | Nikolaus Pevsner | 0-691-09904-9 | 1976 | 35:19 | ||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Giorgio Vasari: The Man and the Book - 1971 | T. S. R. Boase | 1979 | 35:20 | |||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Leonardo da Vinci - 1972 | Ludwig H. Heydenreich | none | ||||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | The Use and Abuse of Art - 1973 | Jacques Barzun | 0-691-09903-0 | 1974 | 35:22 | ||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Nineteenth-Century Sculpture Reconsidered - 1974 | H. W. Janson | Tulane | ||||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Music in Europe in the Year 1776 - 1975 | H. C. Robbins Landon | none | ||||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Reflections on Classical Greek Art - 1976 | Peter von Blanckenhagen | none | ||||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | The Sack of Rome, 1527 - 1977 | André Chastel | Beth Archer | 0-691-09947-2 | 1982 | 35:26 | |
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | The Rare Art Traditions: The History of Art Collecting and Its Linked Phenomena Wherever These Have Appeared - 1978 | Joseph Alsop | 0-06-010091-5 | 1982 | 35:27 | ||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891-1921 - 1979 | John Rewald, Frances Weitzenhoffer | 0-691-09960-X | 1989 | 35:28 | ||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Principles of Design in Ancient and Medieval Architecture - 1980 | Peter Kidson | none | ||||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Palladian Architecture in England, 1615–1760 - 1981 | John Harris | none | ||||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | The Burden of Michelangelo's Painting - 1982 | Leo Steinberg | none | ||||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | The Shape of France - 1983 | Vincent Scully | St. Martin's | ||||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Painting as an Art - 1984 | Richard Wollheim | 0-691-09964-2 | 1987 | 35:33 | ||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses, 1985 | James S. Ackerman | 1990 | 35:34 | |||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Confessions of a Twentieth‑Century Composer - 1986 | Lukas Foss | none | ||||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | - 1987 | Jaroslav Pelikan | 0-691-14125-1 | paperback 1990, 2011 | 35:36 | ||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Only Connect...: Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance - 1988 | John Shearman | 0-691-09972-3 | 1992 | 35:37 | ||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | The Mediation of Ornament - 1989 | Oleg Grabar | 0-691-04099-0 | 1992 | 35:38 | ||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Gold, Silver, and Bronze: Metal Sculpture of the Roman Baroque - 1990 | Jennifer Montagu | 0-691-02736-6 | 1996 | 35:39 | ||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Changing Faces: Art and Physiognomy through the Ages - 1991 | Willibald Sauerländer | none | ||||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | On the Laws of the Poetic Art - 1992 | Anthony Hecht | 0-691-04363-9 | 1995 | 35:41 | ||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity - 1993 | John Boardman | 0-691-03680-2 | 1994 | 35:42 | ||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Kings & Connoisseurs: Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe - 1994 | Jonathan Brown | 0-691-04497-X | 1995 | 35:43 | ||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History - 1995 | Arthur Danto | 0-691-01173-7 | 1997 | 35:44 | ||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | The Roots of Romanticism - 1965 | Isaiah Berlin | Henry Hardy | 0-691-00713-6 | 1999 | 35:45 | |
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | From Drawing to Painting: Poussin, Watteau, Fragonard, David, and Ingres - 1996 | Pierre Rosenberg | 0-691-00918-X | 2000 | 35:47 | ||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Paths to the Absolute: Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky, Pollock, Newman, Rothko, and Still - 1997 | John Golding | 0-691-04896-7 | 2000 | 35:48 | ||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | - 1998 | Lothar Ledderose | 0-691-00669-5 | 2000 | 35:46 | ||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Transitions - 1999 | Carlo Bertelli | none | ||||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | The Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns in the Arts, 1600–1715 - 2000 | Marc Fumaroli | none | ||||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Giorgione and Caravaggio: Art as Revolution - 2001 | Salvatore Settis | none | ||||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | The Moment of Caravaggio - 2002 | Michael Fried | 0-691-14701-9 | 2010, audio version available on line | 35:51 | ||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock - 2003 | Kirk Varnedoe | 0-691-12678-X | 2006, audio version available on line | 35:48? | ||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | More Than Meets the Eye - 2004 | Irving Lavin | none | ||||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | "Great Work": Terms of Aesthetic Experience in Ancient Mesopotamia - 2005 | Irene J. Winter | none | ||||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Really Old Masters: Age, Infirmity, and Reinvention - 2006 | Simon Schama | none | ||||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Last Looks, Last Books: The Binocular Poetry of Death: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill - 2007 | Helen Vendler | 0-691-14534-1 | 2010, audio version available on line | 35:56 | ||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Bosch and Bruegel: Parallel Worlds - 2008 | Joseph Leo Koerner | none | ||||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica - 2009 | T. J. Clark | 0-691-15741-2 | 2013, audio version available on line | 35-58 | ||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Art and Representation in the Ancient New World - 2010 | Mary Miller | none, audio version available on line | ||||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | The Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from Ancient Rome to Salvador Dalí - 2011 | Mary Beard | none, video version available on line | ||||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Chinese Painting and Its Audiences - 2012 | Craig Clunas | none | ||||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Out of Site in Plain View: A History of Exhibiting Architecture since 1750 - 2013 | Barry Bergdoll | none, audio version available on line | ||||
| The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts | Past Belief: Visions of Early Christianity in Renaissance and Reformation Europe - 2014 | Anthony Grafton | none, audio and video version available on line |