Author: William TitePublisher:
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Category : Auction catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Catalogue of the ... Collection of Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, and Engravings, of the Late Sir William Tite ...
Author: William TitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Auction catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Catalogue of the Extensive, Important and Valuable Collection of Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, and Engravings, of the Late Sir William Tite ... Which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge ... on ... the 18th of May, 1874, Etc
Author: Sir William Tite“The” Athenaeum
Author: Catalogue of the ... Collection of Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, and Engravings of the Late Sir William Tite
Author: Sir William TitePublisher:
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Athenæum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
English Book Collectors
Author: William Younger FletcherPublisher:
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Category : Book collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Bedfordshire Notes and Queries
Author: Frederic Augustus BlaydesPublisher:
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Category : Bedfordshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Whistler V. Ruskin
Author: James McNeill WhistlerPublisher:
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Category : Art criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Cork
Author: Charles SmithPublisher:
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Category : Cork (Ireland : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
POT OF PAINT
Author: Linda MerrillPublisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
"A Pot of Paint reconstructs the lost transcript and revisits the highly contested issues surrounding one of the most celebrated trials in the history of art. A libel suit brought in the London courts by American expatriate artist James McNeill Whistler against John Ruskin, England's most powerful art critic, the trial was essentially a debate of aesthetic theory conducted at a critical hour in the evolution of modern art." "After viewing an 1877 exhibition that included some of Whistler's most abstract works, Ruskin declared in print that the artist had flung "a pot of paint in the public's face." He called Whistler a "coxcomb" and said that it was the height of "cockney impudence" to ask two hundred guineas for a painting such as Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket. The dispute was fully covered in the popular press. Using those newspaper accounts, as well as letters, legal papers, Ruskin's instructions to his counsel, and Whistler's later rendition of events in The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, Linda Merrill reveals the deeply held, contrary aesthetic ideals of the two parties, and shows that, in many ways, the real litigants in Whistler v. Ruskin were traditional, representational art and art that tended toward abstraction." "During eighteen months of pretrial delays and two days of testimony from Whistler and several well-known figures in the art world, London debated the value and the meaning of art. A Pot of Paint retrieves these debates for a society that continues to argue the merits of innovation in art and the place of art in the modern world."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved