Inspired by James McNeill Whistler's famous Peacock Room, contemporary painter Darren Waterston creates his own decadent interpretation in a major installation at MASS MoCA. Darren Waterston's Filthy Lucre is a contemporary reimagining of James McNeill Whistler's decorative masterpiece Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room--originally a dining room in the London mansion of shipping magnate Frederick Leyland. In 1876 and 1877, Whistler transformed the space with painted leather walls, gilded shutters, and a ceiling ...
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Inspired by James McNeill Whistler's famous Peacock Room, contemporary painter Darren Waterston creates his own decadent interpretation in a major installation at MASS MoCA. Darren Waterston's Filthy Lucre is a contemporary reimagining of James McNeill Whistler's decorative masterpiece Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room--originally a dining room in the London mansion of shipping magnate Frederick Leyland. In 1876 and 1877, Whistler transformed the space with painted leather walls, gilded shutters, and a ceiling reflecting the coppery golds and brilliant blues of a peacock's plumage. Waterston reconstructs the historical room as a sumptuous ruin, replete with reinterpretations of Whistler's paintings and 250 hand-painted vessels. This title features all-new photography of Whistler's and Waterston's rooms, accompanied by essays by their curators and a scholar of patronage.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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4to. 128 pp. Printed paper-covered boards. Very good. Includes full page color plates. Dark blue endpapers. Catalog created on occasion of exhibit "Darren Waterston: Filthy Lucre" on view at Mass MoCA in North Adams, M. A from March 8, 2014 through February 1, 2015. Heavy volume (possible extra shipping costs).
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VG-, light bumping in one corner. Color-illustrated boards; black cloth spine; white lettering. 128 pp. full of color images. Catalogue from the phenomenal exhibition held at Mass MoCA, March 2014 through February 2015 and at the Sackler, May 2015 through December 2016. Filthy Lucre, an immersive installation by painter Darren Waterston, reimagines James McNeill Whistler's famed Peacock Room-an icon of American art-as a decadent ruin collapsing under the weight of its own creative excess. Forging a link between inventive and destructive forces, Filthy Lucre forms the centerpiece of an unprecedented exhibition that highlights the complicated tensions between art and money, ego and patronage, and acts of creative expression in the nineteenth century and today. -from the Smithsonian web site.
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NF; Inscribed/Signed by Waterston on half title, 2017. Color-illustrated boards; black cloth spine; white lettering. 128 pp. full of color images. Catalogue from the phenomenal exhibition held at Mass MoCA, March 2014 through February 2015 and at the Sackler, May 2015 through December 2016. Filthy Lucre, an immersive installation by painter Darren Waterston, reimagines James McNeill Whistler's famed Peacock Room-an icon of American art-as a decadent ruin collapsing under the weight of its own creative excess. Forging a link between inventive and destructive forces, Filthy Lucre forms the centerpiece of an unprecedented exhibition that highlights the complicated tensions between art and money, ego and patronage, and acts of creative expression in the nineteenth century and today. -from the Smithsonian web site.
