Whistler : a life for art's sake

Daniel E Sutherland

livres 2014 Whistler : James McNeill : 1834-1903 : Biographies Peintres : Biographies : États-Unis : 19e siècle Vie artistique : France : 19e siècle Artists : Biography : United States Impressionnisme

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, …

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Titre(s): Whistler
a life for art's sake
Auteur(s): Daniel E Sutherland (Auteur)
Collation: 1 vol. (XX-440 p.-[48] p. de pl.) ; ill. en front., ill. en noir et en coul., portr., jaquette ill ; 24 cm
Année: 2014
Sujet(s): Whistler : James McNeill : 1834-1903 : Biographies Peintres : Biographies : États-Unis : 19e siècle Vie artistique : France : 19e siècle Artists : Biography : United States
Indice: La Peinture en Amérique du Nord
Genre: Impressionnisme
Identifiant: 0-300-20346-2
Langue(s): anglais
Résumé: 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.
Editeur(s): Yale University Press