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The Gentle Art of Making Enemies - As Pleasingly Exemplified in Many Instances, Wherein the Serious Ones of This Earth...Have Been Prettily Spurred on to Unseemliness and Indiscretion, While Overcome by an Undue Sense of Right (Paperback)
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The Gentle Art of Making Enemies - As Pleasingly Exemplified in Many Instances, Wherein the Serious Ones of This Earth...Have Been Prettily Spurred on to Unseemliness and Indiscretion, While Overcome by an Undue Sense of Right (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture
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The first pages of this 1890 work contain an account of the efforts
of various 'pirates' to publish a selection of the letters of James
Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), and their ultimate
frustration. In fact, the American journalist Sheridan Ford had
been given informal permission by Whistler, who then changed his
mind, decided to publish a book with his own design, and took legal
action to suppress Ford's version. The 'prologue' is an extract
from the review by Ruskin which led to the famous libel case in
which Whistler was paid one farthing in damages, and the first part
is a rollicking romp through that trial, with sidenotes designed to
undermine the evidence of the various expert witnesses with quotes
from their own writings. The book continues in the same vein, with
selected correspondence between Whistler and the critics, edited to
amuse as well as (perhaps) edify his readers.
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