The Painter's Eye: Notes and Essays on the Pictorial ArtsUniv of Wisconsin Press, 1989 - 276 Seiten Between 1868 and 1897 Henry James wrote a number of short essays and reviews of artists and art collections; these essays were published in magazines such as Atlantic Monthly and Harper's Weekly and in newspapers such as the New York Tribune. They included James's comments on Ruskin, Turner, Whistler, Sargent, and the Impressionists, among many others. Thirty of these essays were collected and first published in a modern edition in 1956, accompanied by John Sweeney's introduction, which sketches James's interest in the visual arts over a period of years, focusing on the ways in which painting and painters entered his work as subjects. Susan Griffin's new forward places James's observations in a contemporary context. Some of the novelist's judgements will seem wrong to today's readers: he was critical of the Impressionists, for example. But all of these essays bear the stamp of James's critical intelligence, and they tell us a great deal about his development as a writer during those years. |
Inhalt
FOREWORD | 1 |
INTRODUCTION | 9 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 32 |
French Pictures in Boston 1872 | 43 |
Pictures by William Morris Hunt Gérôme | 50 |
The Wallace Collection in Bethnal Green 1873 | 67 |
The Duke of Montpensiers Pictures in Boston | 79 |
On some Pictures lately exhibited | 88 |
The Norwich School | 152 |
Ruskins Collection of Drawings by Turner | 158 |
The Royal Academy 1878 | 167 |
On Whistler and Ruskin 1878 | 172 |
The Royal Academy and the Grosvenor | 178 |
London Pictures 1882 | 202 |
John S Sargent | 216 |
Honoré Daumier | 229 |
Duveneck and Copley 1875 | 105 |
The American Purchase of Meissoniers Fried | 108 |
The Impressionists 1876 | 114 |
The National Gallery 1877 | 122 |
The Picture Season in London 1877 | 130 |
The New Gallery 1897 | 244 |
The Guildhall and the Royal Academy 1897 | 251 |
APPENDIX B Stories and novels concerning | 265 |
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