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The Street of Wonderful Possibilities - Whistler, Wilde and Sargent in Tite Street (Paperback)
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The Street of Wonderful Possibilities - Whistler, Wilde and Sargent in Tite Street (Paperback)
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Loot Price R257
Discovery Miles 2 570
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This fascinating, absorbing, and beautifully illustrated work tells
the story of one small London street which played host to some of
the greatest artistic and intellectual minds of the Victorian era.
Quiet and unassuming on first glance, Tite Street in Chelsea, West
London was nevertheless one of the most influential and important
streets in the cultural life of the capital during the 19th and
20th centuries. Playing host to the likes of Oscar Wilde,John
Singer Sargent, James Whistler and Radclyffe Hall, the rich
cultural history of this street is explored in characterful and
captivating detail by acclaimed art historian Devon Cox. This
brilliant and lively biography gets inside the lives of those who
lived here, creating a vivid image of one small street which became
the beating heart of London's artistic life. Throughout its
turbulent existence, Tite Street mirrored the world around it. From
the Aesthetic movement and its challenge to Victorian values,
through the Edwardian struggle for women's suffrage, to the bombs
of the Blitz in the 1940s, it remained home to innumerable artists
and writers, socialites and suffragettes, musicians and madmen.
With beautiful and insightful writing, Cox paints a vibrant picture
of a street where artists and intellectuals flocked, exploring the
connections, rivalries and competing artistic visions of the great
minds who lived and thrived here. The Street of Wonderful
Possibilitiesreveals this complex history, tying together private
and professional lives to form a colourful tapestry of art and
intrigue, illuminating their relationships to each other, to Tite
Street and to a rapidly modernising London at the fin de siecle.
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