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Whistler : a life for art's sake / Daniel Sutherland.

By:

Sutherland, Daniel E

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press , 2014Description: 440 p. : illus. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780300203462

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 WHI

LOC classification:

N6537.W4 S88 2014

Contents:

1. Jamie, My Boy -- 1834-1849 -- 2. Anything for a Quiet Life -- 1849-1854 -- 3. Bohemian Rhapsody -- 1854-1858 -- 4. Portraits and Self-Portraits -- 1858-1861 -- 5. Rebellion and Notoriety -- 1861-1863 -- 6. Homage to Whistler -- 1864-1866 -- 7. Trouble in Paradise -- 1866-1869 -- 8. Butterfly -- 1870-1873 -- 9. Peacocks and Nocturnes -- 1874-1877 -- 10. Trials -- 1877-1879 -- 11. Death and Transfiguration -- 1879-1880 -- 12. The Butterfly Rampant -- 1881-1883 -- 13. Art is upon the Town -- 1884-1885 -- 14. Explanations and Expectations -- 1886-1888 -- 15. Games and Honors, Various -- 1888-1890 -- 16. Scotland is Brave, but Vive La France! -- 1891-1892 -- 17. A New Life, New Markets, New Friends -- 1893-1894 -- 18. Litigation and the Lamp -- 1894-1895 -- 19. I Journey by Myself -- 1896-1897 -- 20. President and Master, Redux -- 1898-1900 -- 21. Off the Treadmill -- 1901-1902 -- 22. The Evening Mist -- 1903-1908.

Abstract: The first biography in more than twenty years of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) is also the first to make extensive use of the artist's private correspondence to tell the story of his life and work. This engaging personal history dispels the popular notion of Whistler as merely a combative, eccentric, and unrelenting publicity seeker, a man as renowned for his public feuds with Oscar Wilde and John Ruskin as for the iconic portrait of his mother. The Whistler revealed in these pages is an intense, introspective, and complex man, plagued by self-doubt and haunted by an endless pursuit of perfection in his painting and drawing. In his beautifully illustrated and deeply human portrayal of the artist, Daniel E. Sutherland shows why Whistler was perhaps the most influential artist of his generation, and certainly a pivotal figure in the cultural history of the nineteenth century. Whistler comes alive through his own magnificent work and words, including the provocative manifestos that explained his bold artistic vision, sparked controversy in his own time, and resonate to this day

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	92 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		035473

Includes bibliographical references (pages 418-419) and index.

The first biography in more than twenty years of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) is also the first to make extensive use of the artist's private correspondence to tell the story of his life and work. This engaging personal history dispels the popular notion of Whistler as merely a combative, eccentric, and unrelenting publicity seeker, a man as renowned for his public feuds with Oscar Wilde and John Ruskin as for the iconic portrait of his mother. The Whistler revealed in these pages is an intense, introspective, and complex man, plagued by self-doubt and haunted by an endless pursuit of perfection in his painting and drawing. In his beautifully illustrated and deeply human portrayal of the artist, Daniel E. Sutherland shows why Whistler was perhaps the most influential artist of his generation, and certainly a pivotal figure in the cultural history of the nineteenth century. Whistler comes alive through his own magnificent work and words, including the provocative manifestos that explained his bold artistic vision, sparked controversy in his own time, and resonate to this day

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