The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies is a book by the painter James McNeill Whistler, published in London in 1890 by William Heinemann, who also published a second, enlarged edition in 1892.[1] The book was in part a response to, in part a transcript of, Whistler's famous libel suit against critic John Ruskin. Ruskin, in a review of the inaugural showing at the Grosvenor Gallery, had referred to Whistler's painting Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket as "flinging a pot of paint in the public's face".[2] The book contains Whistler's letters to newspapers chronicling his many petty grievances against various acquaintances and friends, and it contains his famous 1885 lecture, "Ten O'Clock", explaining "the meaning and purpose of art".[3]
Whistler biographer Stanley Weintraub suggests the book was controversial enough that Whistler might have been better known for it than for his art at the time of his death.[4]
References
- ^ Sutherland, Daniel E. Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014, pp. 245-246.
- ^ Hewison, Robert. John Ruskin. Oxford University Press, 2007. p. 98.
- ^ Sutherland, Daniel E. Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014, p. 206.
- ^ Weintraub, Stanley. Whistler: A Biography. Da Capo Press, 2001: xi. ISBN 0-306-80971-0
External links
- The Gentle Art of Making Enemies at Project Gutenberg
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- Portrait of Whistler with Hat (1858)
- Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl (1862)
- Rose and Silver: The Princess from the Land of Porcelain (1863–65)
- Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl (1864–65)
- Symphony in White, No. 3 (1865–67)
- Sea and Rain (1865)
- Whistler's Mother (1871)
- Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Chelsea (1871)
- Nocturne: Blue and Gold – Old Battersea Bridge (c. 1872)
- Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle (1873)
- Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket (c. 1875)
- Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room (1876–77)
- Portrait of Lady Meux (1881)
- Mother of Pearl and Silver: The Andalusian (1888–1900)
- The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (1890)
relationships
- Beatrice Whistler (wife)
- Anna McNeill Whistler (mother)
- George Washington Whistler (father)
- William McNeill Whistler (brother)
- Maud Franklin (model and lover)
- Joanna Hiffernan (model and lover)
- Nocturne painting
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