James McNeill Whistler

Published to accompany the first major European exhibition of his work in 30 years, experience the captivating world of rule-breaking American artist James McNeill Whistler.

James McNeill Whistler rewrote the rules of what it meant to be an artist. A truly global figure, he pioneered innovative techniques, creating astonishingly beautiful, ethereal visions of modern life that would earn him a place as one of the most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

A boldly experimental artist and cosmopolitan celebrity, Whistler disrupted the conventions of Victorian society in pursuit of truth, beauty and progress. Mobilising novel marketing and media possibilities, he was one of the first to understand the force of performance, self-publishing, satire and scandal to advance serious ideas. He built a career unrepentantly at odds with and ahead of his times – too avant-garde for the avant-garde, it was sometimes said.

Illustrated with the artist’s world-famous paintings alongside rarely seen works, this sumptuous monograph includes exquisite portraits, drawings, prints and designs, from as early as his teens in St Petersburg to the enigmatic late self-portraits. An international selection of writers look afresh at this audacious artist, casting new light on his unsettled life, and the way he redefined the special value of the artist in a shifting, materialist world.

Contributor: Carol Jacobi (Edited by), Horace D. Ballard (Contributions by), Qamoos Bukhari (Contributions by), Alexis Clark (Contributions by), Caitlin Doley (Contributions by), James Finch (Contributions by), Miguel Gaete (Contributions by), Eliza Germán (Contributions by), Diana Greenwold (Contributions by), Anna Gruetzner Robins (Contributions by), Jane McCree (Contributions by), Margaret MacDonald (Contributions by), Patricia de Montfort (Contributions by), Kenneth John Myers (Contributions by), Ayako Ono (Contributions by), Grischka Petri (Contributions by), Renske Suijver (Contributions by), Daniel E. Sutherland (Contributions by), Joyce Townsend (Contributions by)

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