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Henry James and American Painting (Hardcover)
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Henry James and American Painting (Hardcover)
Series: Penn State Series in the History of the Book
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Depicting characters like the eponymous young sculptor in Roderick
Hudson and spaces like the crowded galleries in The Wings of the
Dove, Henry James’s iconic novels reflect the significance of the
visual culture of his society. In this book, novelist and critic
Colm Tóibín joins art historian Marc Simpson and Declan Kiely of
The Morgan Library & Museum to reveal how essential the
language and imagery of the arts—and friendships with
artists—were to James’s writing. The authors consider the
paintings, photographs, drawings, and sculpture produced by artists
in James’s circle, assess how his pictorial aesthetic developed,
and discuss why he destroyed so many personal documents and what
became of those that survived. In examining works by figures such
as John La Farge, Hendrik Andersen, and John Singer Sargent
alongside selections from James’s novels, personal letters, and
travel writings, Tóibín, Simpson, and Kiely explore the
novelist’s artistic and social milieu. They show him to be a
writer with a painterly eye for colors and textures, shapes and
tastes, and for the blending of physical and psychological
impressions. In many cases, the characters populating James’s
fiction are ciphers for his artist friends, whose demeanors and
experiences inspired James to immortalize them on the page. He also
wrote critically about art, most notably about the work of his
friend Sargent. A refreshing new perspective on a master novelist
who was greatly nourished by his friendships with artists, Henry
James and American Painting reveals a James whose literary
imagination, in Tóibín’s words, “seemed most at ease with the
image” and the work of creating fully realized portraits of his
characters.
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