96 James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne

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Description: Nocturne: The River at Battersea

TitleNocturne: The River at Battersea

Creator nameWhistler, James McNeill

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1878

Object typePrint

MaterialsLithograph on blue-grey chine-collé

LocationArt Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

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Accession number84/67

SubjectsMarine print, American--19th centuryAesthetic movement (Art)Night in artThames River (England)Painting, American--Japanese influences

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Chapter 6: James McNeill Whistler

Elizabeth Prettejohn

Art for Art’s Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting

For his contemporaries as for recent scholars, the primary fact about Whistler is his singularity. It may be said that he and his critics, in a strange collusion born of antipathy and adulation in equal measure, have made of Whistler himself an object of aesthetic judgement...

Author

Elizabeth Prettejohn

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.163-199

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31933&redirecttoanchor=108537

Chapter subject tags:Aesthetic movement (Art)Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903Art for art's sake (Movement)Painting, American--19th centuryRuskin, John, 1819-1900Painting, British--19th century

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