Nocturne: the Art of James McNeill Whistler
Author | : Denys Sutton |
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Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Art, American |
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Author | : Denys Sutton |
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Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Art, American |
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Author | : James McNeill Whistler |
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Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Aesthetics |
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Author | : James McNeill Whistler |
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Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : Art criticism |
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Author | : Hélène Valance |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2018-06-12 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0300224141 |
A beautifully illustrated look at the vogue for night landscapes amid the social, political, and technological changes of modern America The turn of the 20th century witnessed a surge in the creation and popularity of nocturnes and night landscapes in American art. In this original and thought-provoking book, Hélène Valance investigates why artists and viewers of the era were so captivated by the night. Nocturne examines works by artists such as James McNeill Whistler, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Frederic Remington, Edward Steichen, and Henry Ossawa Tanner through the lens of the scientific developments and social issues that dominated the period. Valance argues that the success of the genre is connected to the resonance between the night and the many forces that affected the era, including technological advances that expanded the realm of the visible, such as electric lighting and photography; Jim Crow–era race relations; America’s closing frontier and imperialism abroad; and growing anxiety about identity and social values amid rapid urbanization. This absorbing study features 150 illustrations encompassing paintings, photographs, prints, scientific illustration, advertising, and popular media to explore the predilection for night imagery as a sign of the times.
Author | : Matthew Plampin |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2018-05-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0008163634 |
‘A captivating tale ...This novel is a delight’ THE TIMES ‘A terrific novel ... It springs off the page’ DEBORAH MOGGACH 'Vividly engaging’ SUNDAY TIMES
Author | : Patrick Chaleyssin |
Publisher | : Parkstone International |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2011-07-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1780423047 |
Whistler suddenly shot to fame like a meteor at a crucial moment in the history of art, a field in which he was a pioneer. Like the impressionists, with whom he sided, he wanted to impose his own ideas. Whistler’s work can be divided into four periods. The first may be called a period of research in which he 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 Grey and Black and this is symbolic of his aesthetic theories. When painting the Cremorne Pleasure Gardens it was not to depict identifiable figures, as did Renoir in his work on similar themes, but to capture an atmosphere. He loved the mists that hovered over the banks of the Thames, the pale light, and the factory chimneys which at night turned into magical minarets. Night redrew landscapes, effacing the details. This was the period in which he became an adventurer in art; his work, which verged on abstraction, shocked his contemporaries. The third period is dominated by the full-length portraits that brought him his fame. He was able to imbue this traditional genre with his profound originality. He tried to capture part of the souls of his models and placed the characters in their natural habitats. This gave his models a strange presence so that they seem about to walk out of the picture to physically encounter the viewer. By extracting the poetic substance from individuals he created portraits described as “mediums” by his contemporaries, and which were the inspiration for Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. Towards the end of his life, the artist began painting landscapes and portraits in the classical tradition, strongly influenced by Velázquez. Whistler proved to be extremely rigorous in ensuring his paintings coincided with his theories. He never hesitated in crossing swords with the most famous art theoreticians of his day. His personality, his outbursts, and his elegance were a perfect focus for curiosity and admiration. He was a close friend of Stéphane Mallarmé, and admired by Marcel Proust, who rendered homage to him in A La Recherche du Temps Perdu. He was also a provocative dandy, a prickly socialite, a demanding artist, and a daring innovator.
Author | : Daniel E. Sutherland |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2014-03-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300203462 |
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.
Author | : James McNeill Whistler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Lisa A. Peters |
Publisher | : Smithmark Publishers |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780765199614 |
An illustrated study of American painter James Whistler.
Author | : Elizabeth Robins Pennell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Painters |
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