The Gentle Art of Making Enemies James McNeill Whistler Dover Trade PB

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Condition
Acceptable: A book with obvious wear. May have some damage to the cover but integrity still intact. ...
Country of Origin
United States
Era
1960s
Modified Item
No
ISBN
9780486218755
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Dover Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0486218759
ISBN-13
9780486218755
eBay Product ID (ePID)
443783

Product Key Features

Book Title
Gentle Art of Making Enemies
Number of Pages
334 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1967
Topic
Individual Artists / General, Satire, General, Humor
Illustrator
Yes
Features
Reprint
Genre
Literary Criticism, Art, Fiction, Psychology
Author
James M. Whistler
Book Series
Dover Fine Art, History of Art Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
14.3 Oz
Item Length
7.1 in
Item Width
5.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
67-024225
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
759.1/3
Edition Description
Reprint
Synopsis
In this highly entertaining account of personal revenges, this great artist deflates Wilde, Ruskin, Swinburne, and inane critics and discusses the aesthetics of the Impressionist., Described by Whistler himself as a highly entertaining account of personal revenges, this work is filled with the deadly sarcasm and stinging remarks of one of the wittiest men of the 19th century. The great artist deflates Wilde, Ruskin, Swinburne, and inane critics and discusses the aesthetics of the Impressionist., Whistler's Gentle Art, a classic in the literature of insult and denigration, might well be subtitled "The Autobiography of a Hater," for it contains the deadly sarcasm and stinging remarks of one of the wittiest men of the nineteenth century. Whistler not only refused to tolerate misunderstanding by critics and the so-called art-loving public -- but launched vicious counterattacks as well. His celebrated passages-at-arms with Oscar Wilde and Swinburne, the terse and penetrating "letters to the editor," his rebuttals to attacks from critics, and biting marginal notes to contemptuous comments on his paintings and hostile reviews (which are also reprinted) are all part of this record of the artist's vendettas. Whistler's most famous battle began when critic John Ruskin saw one of the artist's "Nocturnes" exhibited in Grosvenor Gallery. "I have seen, and heard," wrote Ruskin, "much of cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." Whistler was incensed with this criticism, and initiated the famous libel case "Whistler vs. Ruskin." Extracts from the resultant trial record are among the highlights of this book, with Whistler brilliantly annihilating his Philistine critics, but winning only a farthing in damages. The Gentle Art, designed by Whistler himself, is a highly entertaining account of personal revenges, but it is also an iconoclast's plea for a new and better attitude toward painting. As a historical document, it is the best statement of the new aesthetics versus the old guard academics, and it helped greatly in shaping the modern feeling toward art.

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