The gentle art of making enemies. : With an introd. by Alfred Werner.
"In his Gentle Art of Making Enemies the expatriate American Painter James Abbot McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) included these excerpts from the court proceedings of 1878 in his libel suit against John Ruskin. Whistler was awarded a farthing in damages, but public sentiment so strongly favored Ru...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Dover Publications,
[1967]
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| Summary: | "In his Gentle Art of Making Enemies the expatriate American Painter James Abbot McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) included these excerpts from the court proceedings of 1878 in his libel suit against John Ruskin. Whistler was awarded a farthing in damages, but public sentiment so strongly favored Ruskin that Whistler was forced into bankruptcy. The trial, marked by considerable hilarity and the sallies of Whistler's pugnacious wit, was a rather dubious attempt to prove at law the viability of a work of art, Nocturne in Black and Gold--The Falling Rocket." |
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| Item Description: | "Unabridged and unaltered republication [with new introd.] of the second, enlarged edition published ... in 1892." |
| Physical Description: | xxii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm |
| ISBN: | 0486218759 9780486218755 |