https://aaeportal.com/?id=13553
Please wait while we complete your search...
Please wait while we complete your search...
Yale University Press
Accessibility Options
AA
Site search
  • Return to previous
  • Page

James McNeill Whistler

Image details
Description: James McNeill Whistler
Related content: Chapters (1) Images (500)

Select a chapter below to view this image within the text.


Description: Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America
In the late nineteenth century, writers exhibited a marked tendency to dwell on the personal traits and appearance of artists. Nowhere was this more pronounced than in the voluminous archive dedicated to the expatriate American James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), the subject of scores of articles, a number that would rise to many hundreds (along with a large number of books) in the decades after his death. Both generator and focus of a vigorous publicity enterprise, Whistler—or at least certain …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.221-246
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00068.010