Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm
Reihe: Routledge Revivals
Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm
Reihe: Routledge Revivals
ISBN: 978-1-041-46846-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
First published in 1978, The Young Whistler, 1834–66 presents the first thirty-two years in the life of America’s most colourful and controversial artist, up to the time when, following his sudden departure to Chile, he returned a new man and a new artist.
The book offers a vivid picture of Whistler’s boyhood in Russia; a full account of his career at West Point military academy (whose archives were opened freely to Professor Fleming); two lively and amusing chapters on his student days in Paris; a realistic picture of the Thames ‘below bridge’, where Whistler first lived and worked in London, and a detailed view of pre-Embarkment Chelsea, where he spent several of his early years.
Not only does Professor Fleming give the fullest existing picture of the young Whistler, the man and the artist; he provides also vivid portraits of the people in his life: especially his mother, who steps out of her rocking-chair into real life, his sister, Deborah, virtually ignored by earlier biographers; his brother-in-law, Seymour Haden; his closest friend, Henri Fantin-Latour, to whom he wrote long letters in French which have been specially translated for this book; and his mistress, Joanna Hiffernan.
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Postgraduate
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1. New England (1834–43) 2. St Peterburg (1843–7) 3. London (1848–9) 4. Connecticut (1849–51) 5. West Point (1851–4) 6. Washington (1854–5) 7. Paris, I (1855–9) 8. Paris, II (1855–9) 9. London (1859–61) 10. France and London (1861–2) 11. Paris and London (1862–4) 12. London (1863–5) 13. London and Valparaiso (1865–6)
