HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Murphy, Paul Thomas, 1957- author.
Subjects
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903. Nocturne in black and gold: the falling rocket.
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Trials (Libel) -- England -- London.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Murphy, Paul Thomas, 1957- author.
by title:
Falling rocket : Jam...
MARC Display
Falling rocket : James Whistler, John Ruskin, and the battle for modern art / Paul Thomas Murphy.
by
Murphy, Paul Thomas, 1957- author.
New York : Pegasus Books, 2023.
Subjects
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903. Nocturne in black and gold: the falling rocket.
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Trials (Libel) -- England -- London.
ISBN:
9781639364916 (hardcover) :
1639364919 (hardcover)
Description:
394 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Edition:
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Contents:
Whistler's mother -- No wealth but life -- Nocturnes -- Damages -- "Ruskin wouldn't go" -- Whistler v. Ruskin -- The show -- Venice -- La Fortune -- Ghosts.
Requests:
1
Summary:
"In November 1878, America's greatest painter sued England's greatest critic for a bad review. The painter won--but ruined himself in the process. The painter: James Abbot MacNeill Whistler, whose combination of incredible talent, unflagging energy, and relentless self-promotion had by that time brought him to the very edge of artistic preeminence. The critic: John Ruskin, Slade Professor of Art at Oxford University, whose four-decades' worth of prolific and highly respected literary output on aesthetics had made him England's unchallenged and seemingly unchallengeable arbiter of art. Though Whistler and Ruskin both lived in London and moved in the same artistic world, they had, until June, 1877, managed to remain entirely clear of one another. This was unusual because Whistler had a mercurial temperament, a belligerent personality, and seemed to thrive on opposition: he once challenged a man to a duel because the man accused the painter of sleeping with his wife. (Whistler had, in fact, slept with the man's wife.) That November, John Ruskin walked into the Grosvenor Gallery's new exhibition of art and gazed with horror upon Whistler's Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket. The painting was Whistler's interpretation of a fireworks display at a local pleasure garden. But to Ruskin it was nothing more than a chaotic, incomprehensible mess of bright spots upon dark masses: not art but its antithesis--a disturbing and disgusting assault upon everything he had ever written or taught on the subject. He quickly channeled that anger into a seething review. The internationally-reported, widely discussed, and hugely entertaining trial that followed was a titanic battle between the opposing ideas and ideals of two larger-than-life personalities. For these two protagonists, Whistler v Ruskin was the battle of a lifetime--or more accurately, a battle of their two lifetimes. Paul Thomas Murphy's Falling Rocket also recounts James Whistler's turbulent but triumphant development from artistic oblivion in the 1880s to artistic deification in the 1890s, and also Ruskin's isolated, befogged, silent final years after his public humiliation"-- Provided by publisher.
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Hawaii State Library
Art, Music & Recreation
759.13 Mu
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Hilo Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
759.13 Murphy
Item being held
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.0
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.