James Mcneill Whistler and France

List of contents

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

About the author

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).

Summary

In this first full-length study to position James McNeill Whistler within the trajectory of French modernism, his dialogues with Courbet, Manet, Degas, Monet and Seurat are examined in-depth. Inserting Whistler into the dynamics of the French avant-garde reveals the depth and pervasiveness of his presence and the revolutionary nature of his role in shaping modernism.

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"Singletary has composed a beautifully written text (her prose at times rises to level of Mallarmé’s and Baudelaire’s) that may complement recent work into Whistler’s international connections."
--Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
"Suzanne Singletary’s fascinating study is the first to dig deeply into the subsoil and range of Whistler’s relationships with France. ... [It] is an important contribution to Whistler studies that also enriches understanding of some of the leading names of nineteenth-century modernism."
--CAA Reviews

Product details

• Authors: Suzanne Singletary, Suzanne M. Singletary, Suzanne M. Singleta
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.07.2016
• EAN: 9781472442000
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-4200-0
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, ART / History / General, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Art, Theory of music & musicology, Painting & paintings, Individual artists, art monographs, Paintings and painting, Theory of music and musicology