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The Peacock Room: A Cultural Biography The author also includes details of dinner parties that took place in the room, and attempts to draw out insights into contemporary British culture..An account of the creation of James McNeill Whistl
Title | : | The Peacock Room: A Cultural Biography |
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.70 (778 Votes) |
Id Book | : | 0300076118 |
Format Type | : | Hardcover |
Number of Pages | : | 408 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 1998-11-10 |
Type File | : | PDF, DOC, RTF, ePub |
An account of the creation of James McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room, it's reception by the artist's patron, subsequent criticism, and ultimate museum installation in 1923. The author also includes details of dinner parties that took place in the room, and attempts to draw out insights into contemporary British culture.
Completed amid controversy in 1877, Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room was dismantled and sold after Leyland's death, and, in 1923, reconstructed in the U.S. Whistler. This is an erudite investigation into the life styles of both Whistler and his patron Frederick Richards Leyland. . "Remember," wrote the British art critic John Ruskin in 1853, "that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance." When a peacock unfolds its plumage, the eyespots on its feathers form exact logarithmic spirals, like those in a daisy, a pinecone, and a sunflower. Behrens from Ballast Quarterly Review, Vol. 3, Spring 1999.). The cover of "Street Lights of the World" caught my eye. 14 No. It is stunning! I never tire of looking through the pages of beautiful photos. You won't be disappointed!. Twenty years later, Ruskin's remark inspired the Aesthetic Movement ("Art for art's sake"), of which the chief proponents were the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde an
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