Exception or extension? : reorienting the Peacock Room among James McNeill Whistler's interior designs

"Although famous for his paintings and etchings today, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was also an important interior designer in the nineteenth-century British Aesthetic movement. Whistler‘s most famous and only extant interior design is Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room (1876-77). It is also his most puzzling interior. Long considered an exception to the rule of Whistler‘s other interiors, the Peacock Room has often been overlooked in the few studies of the artist‘s interior designs"

Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the artist /

"All the illustrations have been printed by lithography by T. Way ... except the etching "Fitzroy Square" ... and the photogravure of the "Thewhite Lady" ..."--P. xi.

Exposition des oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler. Palais de l'École des beaux-arts.

Paris, May, 1905.

The art of James McNeill Whistler : an appreciation /

"Works by James McNeill Whistler exhibited at the Royal academy": p. 119-121.

Portraits of Whistler : a critical study and an iconography /

"Two hundred and fifty copies printed during November, 1918, by D.B. Updike, the Merrymount Press, Boston, USA. The first twenty-five copies printed have been numbered and signed by the author ..."--Colophon.

Whistler's pastels and other modern profiles,

Reprinted in part from Art and progress and the International studio.

Whistler v. Ruskin : art & art critics /

Printed brown paper cover dated Dec. 24, 1878.

Whistler,

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Whistler,

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John La Farge as collector of Japanese art : motivations and reflections

Throughout his lifetime, American artist John La Farge (1835-1910) amassed an enormous collection of art and books. La Farge’s study of art and culture encompassed several genres and aesthetic elements. La Farge has been credited as the first American artist — even prior to James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)— to integrate visual elements and cultural awareness of the Far East within his own Western-trained art. Although many scholars have studied La Farge’s art and life from various perspectives, including his interest in Asian art, the object of the present study is solely focused on La Farge’s collecting of Japanese art.

Little journeys to the homes of eminent artists.

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The "Art" of Criticism: Rubén Darío and his Unknown Chronicles of the 1895 Salon for "La Prensa"

With the impetus that has led recent studies on Latin American Modernism to a reevaluation of the sense of cultural fluxes from the modernity capitals to its peripheries –discarding categories such as “influence”, “exotism” and “ivory tower”, stereotypes that have clouded critical understanding of this aesthetics for decades- the present study intends to investigate a persistent practice of the main writers of the movement. This practice is modernist pictorial criticism, a genre that will be approached through the analysis of an unknown corpus: the seven chronicles Rubén Darío published in the journal La Prensa on occasion of the third art exposition of the Ateneo de Buenos Aires. Our hypothesis is that the rare creators of images portrayed by Darío by the end of 1895 work as a visual counterpoint of the eccentric writers’ biographical sketches that a year later will be part of the fundamental volume Los raros (1896). In this early “salon”, which we reproduce in its entirety, accompanied by explanatory notes, the leader of Modernism rehearses and consolidates his transcultural work with the universal tradition –now applied to the Salons (1845-1860) by Charles Baudelaire and to the monumental project by John Ruskin in Modern painters (1843-1860)- to legitimate, from another subgenre of Modernist criticism, a new figure of the critic, in dissent with the Enlightenment model of the writer.

A memoir of James Jackson, Jr., M.D. : with extracts from his letters to his father : and medical cases, collected by him /

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