James McNeill Whistler and France

A Dialogue in Paint, Poetry, and Music
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-20009-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 459 g

James McNeill Whistler and France: A Dialogue in Paint, Poetry, and Music is the first full-length and in-depth study to position this painter within the overall trajectory of French modernism during the second half of the nineteenth century and to view the artist as integral to the aesthetic projects of its most original contributors. Suzanne M. Singletary maintains that Whistler was in a unique situation as an insider within the emerging French avant-garde, thereby in an enviable position to both absorb and transform the innovations of others – and that until now, his widespread influence as a catalyst among his colleagues has been neither investigated nor appreciated.

Singletary contends that Whistler’s importance rivals that of Manet, whose multi-layered (and often unexpected) interconnections with Whistler are the focus of one chapter. In addition, Whistler’s pivotal role in linking the legacies of Baudelaire, Delacroix, Gautier, Wagner, and other mid-century innovators to the later French Symbolists has previously been largely ignored. Courbet, Degas, Monet, and Seurat complete the roster of French artists whose dialogue with Whistler is highlighted.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Singletary, Suzanne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert Romantik (Kunstgeschichte)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Whistler’s Dialogues

1. Crossing Thresholds: Baudelaire and Whistler

2. The Artist’s Studio: Courbet and Whistler

3. Voyage: Manet and Whistler

4. Holland and the Modern Interior: Degas and Whistler

5. Alliteration and Ellipses: Monet, Mallarmé and Whistler

6. Seurat’s Butterfly: Seurat and Whistler

Conclusion: Whistler and France

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Suzanne M. Singletary is Associate Professor of Art and Architectural History at Philadelphia University. She has published on Eugène Delacroix, French Symbolism, and Francesco Goya, and contributed essays to Impressionist Interiors (2008), Perspectives on Manet (2012) and Rival Sisters (2014).