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g.donahue, January 27, 2008

If you like art, but think you don’t know enough about it, a great artist’s biography can give one an education and insight along with a good read. This volume of over 400 pages, chronologically covers the life of this important and versatile American artist. His childhood spent in America and Russia, his fights with the art world establishments in London and Paris at a crucial period in the history of art, his many women, his irascible nature, and the controversial nocturnes and their effect on the art world. A fascinating read of an expatriate at the end of the 19th century as well as a great read of the Parisian art world and the struggles artists endured to forge in new directions. The real power of the biographical genre is, I feel, the anecdotal information one gleans of the coterie of artists surrounding the central figure; and this biography relishes us with compassionate anecdotes about Whistler’s friend Monet, visits with the French Realists, Manet and Courbet, difficulties with literary great Oscar Wilde, and many more. “Whistler’s life provides a window through which we catch a glimpse of one of the most exciting periods of art and social history.”

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