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A Fragile Modernism: Whistler and His Impressionist Followers

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A Fragile Modernism: Whistler and His Impressionist Followers - Robins, Anna Gruetzner
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Whistler embarked on a new project in the 1880s, working on a small scale in oil, pastel and watercolor to depict new London subjects and painting portraits of new urban types. This book, the first critical study of Whistler and his Impressionist followers, offers an in-depth analysis of Whistler's art as well as new insights into his modernist project. Using a wealth of primary material, Robins tracks the history of Whistler and his group and shows through testimony and practice that they were formulating an identity as ...

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A Fragile Modernism: Whistler and His Impressionist Followers 2008, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT

ISBN-13: 9780300135459

Hardcover