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Carregando... The gentle art of making enemies. With an introd. by Alfred Werner (original: 1890; edição: 1967)de James McNeill Whistler
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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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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His education: Russia, West Point (to avoid his mother's preferred schooling toward English divinity), and France. Not bad for a Lowell and Springfield boy (like myself). He famously "flunked out" of West Point, then headed by Col. Robert E. Lee, and where his father had taught map making I think. After leaving he was employed making maps of the US coast.
I taught this at the Swain School of Design in the 90's, in New Bedford, in Herman Melville's sister's house, which was Swain's library. This delightful and instructive book, ranks among the best four or five ever written by an artist (Hello Vasari), but I am away from my shelf at the moment, must later add witty quotations.
From my shelf I now quote JMW, "Listen! There never was an artistic Period. There never was an Art-loving nation" (139). "This dreamer apart--was the first artist"(ibid.), whereas his antagonist Wilde says "an artist is not an isolated fact" (161). JMW talks of how ancient craftsmen making cups to drink from were artists, and people drank from them not because they were beautiful, but becasue there were none other. Then artists were replaced by manufactures, as with clothing, "Haphazard from their shoulders hang the garments of the hawker--combining in their person the motley of many manners with the medley of the mummers's closet"(154).
"False again, the fabled link between the grandeur of Art and the glories and virtue of the State, for Art feeds not upon nations, and peoples may be wiped from the face of the earth, but Art IS"(155). ( )