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Whistler - A Life for Art's Sake (Paperback)
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Whistler - A Life for Art's Sake (Paperback)
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Loot Price R582
Discovery Miles 5 820
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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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