Whistler and Montesquiou


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"This is the sage of James Abbott McNeill Whistler's painting of Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac"--Page 9. Painting held by the Frick Collection.




James McNeill Whistler 1834-1863


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Whistler's work can be divided into four periods. The first was a research period in which the artist was influenced by the Realism of Gustave Courbet and by Japanese art. Whistler then discovered his own originality in the Nocturnes and the Cremorne Gardens series, thereby coming into conflict with the academics who wanted a work of art to tell a story. When he painted the portrait of his mother, Whistler entitled it Arrangement in Gray and Black, and this is symbolic of his aesthetic theories.




New York Magazine


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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.




Whistler


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A biography of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) that 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.







Prince of Aesthetes


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A biography of a man and his eternal search for Beauty.




A Touch of Blossom


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"Explores the art of John Singer Sargent in the context of nineteenth-century botany, gynecology, literature, and visual culture. Argues that the artist was elaborating both a period poetics of homosexuality and a new sense of subjectivity, anticipating certain aspects of artistic modernism"--Provided by publisher.




James McNeill Whistler an Evolution of Painting from the Old Masters: Identified By Two Missing Masterpieces


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The discovery of this masterpiece Whistler's "Portrait of William Merritt Chase," along with another important Whistler painting, "Harmony in Black, No10," reveals exciting new discoveries on Whistler's artistic methods, from the Old Masters and the artistic truisms of the Renaissance. Documented analysis including x-ray examination, forensics and recognized paintings by Whistler's followers will confirm this portrait and "Harmony in Black, No10," with x-ray revealing two lost paintings. These Whistler paintings connect scholarship and identify paintings worthy of merit and what makes a masterpiece a masterpiece.




The Life of James McNeill Whistler: Among the friends, the years eighteen eighty-one to eighteen eighty-seven ; The studio in the Fulham Road, the years between eighteen eighty-five to eighteen eighty-seven ; The "ten o'clock," the years eighteen eighty-four to eighteen eighty-eight ; The British artists, The rise, the years eighteen eighty-four to eighteen eighty-eight ; Marriage, the year eighteen eighty-eight ; Work, the years eighteen eighty-four to eighteen eighty-ninety ; Honours, Exhibitions, New interests, the years eighteen eighty-nine to eighteen ninety ; "The gentle art, " the year eighteen hundred and ninety ; The turn of the tide, the years eighteen ninety-one to eighteen ninety-two ; Paris, the years eighteen ninety-two to eighteen ninety-three ; Trials and griefs, the years eighteen ninety-four to eighteen ninety-six ; Alone, the year eighteen hundred ninety-six ; The lithography case, the years eighteen ninety-six to eighteen ninety-seven ; The end of the Eden case, the year eighteen hundred ninety-seven ; Between London and Paris, the years eighteen ninety-seven to nineteen hundred ; The International, the years eighteen ninety-seven to nineteen hundred and three ; The Académie Carmen, the years eighteen ninety-eight to nineteen hundred and one ; The beginning of the end, the year nineteen hundred ; In search of health, the years nineteen hundred and one to nineteen hundred and two ; The end, the years nineteen hundred and two to nineteen hundred and three ; Appendix


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Dandies


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Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture considers the visual languages, politics, and poetics of personal appearance. Dandyism has been most closely associated with influential caucasian Western men-about-town, epitomized by the 19th century style-setting of Oscar Wilde and by Tom Wolfe's white suits. The essays collected here, however, examine the spectacle and workings of dandyism to reveal that these were not the only dandies. On the contrary, art historians, literary and cultural historians, and anthropologists identify unrecognized dandies flourishing among early 19th century Native Americans, in Soviet Latvia, in Africa, throughout the African-American diaspora, among women, and in the art world. Moving beyond historical and fictional accounts of dandies, this volume juxtaposes theoretical models with evocative images and descriptions of clothing in order to link sartorial self-construction with artistic, social, and political self-invention. Taking into consideration the vast changes in thinking about identity in the academy, Dandies provides a compelling study of dandyism's destabilizing aesthetic enterprise. Contributors: Jennifer Blessing, Susan Fillin-Yeh, Rhonda Garelick, Joe Lucchesi, Kim Miller, Robert E. Moore, Richard J. Powell, Carter Ratcliffe, and Mark Allen Svede.