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The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
The great artist deflates Wilde, Ruskin, Swinburne, and inane critics. Whistler also discusses the aesthetics of the Impressionist.
Paperback, 360 pages
Published
May 28th 2006
by Kessinger Publishing
(first published June 1st 1967)
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The artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler was a superb nasty wit, and though this book is charmingly dated in some ways, one can imagine the pain one suffers who is in his Whistler's critical sight. A friend of Wilde's, and in another line of great dandy literature.
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Despite the fact that James Abbott McNeill Whistler is universally renowned today, complete with portrait of his mother in the Louvre, and works represented in Washington DC's National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian Institution, he was once the source of much controversy. Critics like John Ruskin continually implied he was a lazy, untutored painter who produced work of an unrefined (if not incomplete) nature.
Luckily for us, Whistler never took a criticism lying down. In this day and a...more
Luckily for us, Whistler never took a criticism lying down. In this day and a...more
I purchased this book following a Whistler exhibition. For anyone who appreciates well-worded, biting criticism, this is a must read.
This collection of criticism, insult and spirited jibes proves Whistler to be a literary genius.
I'd say this is a must read for art history readers, if not for interest in Whistler then at least to wind up critical thinking of art criticism and historicism.
I'd say this is a must read for art history readers, if not for interest in Whistler then at least to wind up critical thinking of art criticism and historicism.
A CLASSIC.
I was sold on this from the moment I read on the back cover that it is "a classic in the literature of insult and denigration." I wish there were more letter collections like this.
just got it from the library.
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