The woman in white : Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler /
The American-born artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) and Irish-born model Joanna Hiffernan (1839-1886) met in 1860 and began a close professional and personal relationship that lasted over two decades. Hiffernan posed as a model for many of Whistler's works, including his controversial &...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D. C. : London, England : New Haven, Connecticut :
National Gallery of Art ; Royal Academy of Arts ; Distributed by Yale University Press,
[2020].
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| Summary: | The American-born artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) and Irish-born model Joanna Hiffernan (1839-1886) met in 1860 and began a close professional and personal relationship that lasted over two decades. Hiffernan posed as a model for many of Whistler's works, including his controversial "Symphony in White" paintings, a triology that fascinated and challenged viewers with its complex associations with sex and morality, class and fashion, genre and spiritualism, as well as its links with Victorian popular fiction, academic and realist art and the aesthetic movement. This luxuriously illustrated volume provides the first comprehensive account of Hifernan's partnership with Whistler during a period when he was forging a reputation as one of the most innovative and influential artists of his generation. It transforms perceptions of their relationship and the art arising from that collaboration. A series of essays discusses how Hiffernan and Whistler overturned artistic conventions and sheds light on their interactions with contemporaries, including Gustave Courbet, for whom Hiffernan also modeled. Packed with new insights into the creation, marketing and cultural context of Whistler's iconic works, this study also traces their resonance for his fellow artists, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, John Singer Sargent and Gustav Klimt. |
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| Item Description: | Connected to an exhibition organized by and scheduled to open in 2022 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London. |
| Physical Description: | 231 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300254501 0300254504 |