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Artful Itineraries
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Author : Paul Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-01-14
Artful Itineraries written by Paul Fisher and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study investigates the paradoxical dynamics of American high culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by examining the strategies of Americans who wrote about European art in order to promote and legitimize literary careers. Contrary to the myths they themselves disseminated, American writers in Europe did not escape American culture but rather created and participated in US. Cultural institutions like journals, museums, and universities. Transatlantic careers articulated a cult of Europe in a privileged American space, served social and aesthetic hierarchies, and constructed formidable versions of professional authority of American writers. The book focuses on four art careers Americans practiced in Europe: travel writing, art reviewing, connoisseurship, and salon hosting. It illuminates the careers of William Dean Howells, Henry James, Bernard and Mary Berenson, Celia Thaxter, and Gertrude Stein as itineraries of high-cultural formation and self-definition. In four chapters, the study examines these paradigmatic careers as both literary and cultural history, relating them to a diverse American society as well as Bostonian high culture. Americans created and deployed expatriate art careers, the author argues, in a landscape of gender, ethnic, and class relations. The use of Europe was both figural and practical: writers created a fantasized Europe that both enacted social repression and enabled social liberation. Ultimately, as the example of James Weld Johnson demonstrates, elitist and Europhile high culture reflected a much larger America as well as the narrower cultural institutions that historically fostered it.
American Book Publishing Record
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
American Book Publishing Record written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Books categories.
The Grand Affair
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Author : Paul Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2022-11-01
The Grand Affair written by Paul Fisher and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A Wall Street Journal and Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year | Long-listed for the Plutarch Award A bold new biography of the legendary painter John Singer Sargent, stressing the unruly emotions and furtive desires that drove his innovative work and defined the transatlantic, fin de siècle culture he inhabited. A great American artist, John Singer Sargent is also an abiding enigma. While dressing like a businessman and crafting a highly respectable persona, he scandalized viewers on both sides of the Atlantic with the frankness and sensuality of his work. He charmed the nouveaux riches as well as the old money, but he reserved his greatest sympathies for Bedouins, Spanish dancers, and the gondoliers of Venice. At the height of his renown in Britain and America, he quit his lucrative portrait-painting career to concentrate on allegorical murals with religious themes—and on nude drawings of male models that he kept to himself. In The Grand Affair, the historian Paul Fisher offers a vivid life of the buttoned-up artist and his unbuttoned work. Sargent’s nervy, edgy portraits exposed illicit or dark feelings in himself and his sitters—feelings that high society on both sides of the Atlantic found fascinating and off-putting. Fisher traces Singer’s life from his wandering trans-European childhood to the salons of Paris, and the scandals and enthusiasms he caused, and on to London. There he mixed with eccentrics and aristocrats, and the likes of Henry James and Oscar Wilde, while at the same time forming a close relationship with a lightweight boxer who became his model, valet, and traveling partner. In later years, Sargent met up with his friend and patron Isabella Stewart Gardner around the world and devoted himself to a new model, the African American elevator operator and part-time contortionist Thomas McKeller, who would become the subject of some of Sargent’s most daring and powerful work. Illuminating Sargent’s restless itinerary, Fisher explores the enigmas of fin de siècle sexuality and art, fashioning a biography that grants the man and his paintings new and intense life.
The British National Bibliography
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Author : Arthur James Wells
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Bibliography, National categories.
Book Review Index
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Book Review Index written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Books categories.
Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.
The New Yorker
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The New Yorker written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literature categories.
The Poetical Works Of William Wordsworth Evening Voluntaries Itinerary Poems Of 1833 Poems Of Sentiment And Reflection Sonnets Dedicated To Liberty And Order Miscellaneous Poems Inscriptions Selections From Chaucer Poems Referring To The Period Of Old Age Epitaphs And Elegiac Pieces Ode Intimations Of Immortality
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Author : William Wordsworth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1940
The Poetical Works Of William Wordsworth Evening Voluntaries Itinerary Poems Of 1833 Poems Of Sentiment And Reflection Sonnets Dedicated To Liberty And Order Miscellaneous Poems Inscriptions Selections From Chaucer Poems Referring To The Period Of Old Age Epitaphs And Elegiac Pieces Ode Intimations Of Immortality written by William Wordsworth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1940 with categories.
Artful Italy
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Author : Ann S. Brandon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Artful Italy written by Ann S. Brandon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Architecture categories.
Explores artworks that are often the favorites of Italian art connoisseurs but are ignored by the big guidebooks, such as the huge Tapestries of the Months in Milan and the surreal Dante Room at the Casino Massimo in Rome.
Artful Partners
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Author : Colin Simpson
language : en
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Release Date : 1986
Artful Partners written by Colin Simpson and has been published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
The Writers Directory
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
The Writers Directory written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Authors, American categories.