Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake
by Daniel E. Sutherland
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Yale University Press, 2018. Paperback. New. Softcover in illustrated wraps. 8vo. xx. 510pp. Illustrated, Notes/Bibliography. Index. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. A major new biography of James McNeill Whistler, one of most complex, intriguing, and important of America's artists This engaging personal history dispels the popular notion of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) as merely a combative, eccentric, and unrelenting publicity seeker. The Whistler revealed in these beautifully illustrated 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. "[Sutherland] seeks to get behind the public Whistler . . . never judging or condescending to his subject. . . . The portrait of Whistler that emerges is complex and mysterious . . . a measured and scholarly account of an extraordinary life."--Ruth Scurr, Wall Street Journal "The first comprehensive biography of Whistler in at least a generation. . . . Sutherland skillfully captures Whistler's ambition, tenacity, and insecurity and presents his life in a narrative that does justice to both his triumphs and his failures."--Eleanor Jones Harvey, American Scholar.
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- Title
- Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake
- Author
- Daniel E. Sutherland
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
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- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0300232632
- ISBN 13
- 9780300232639
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Date Published
- 2018
- Keywords
- Art, Artist Biography, art criticism, biography,
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