Henry James and American painting
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Henry James and American painting
(The Penn State series in the history of the book)
Pennsylvania State University Press , Morgan Library & Museum, c2017
- : cloth
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Note
"Exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York 9 June-10 September 2017."--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Depicting characters like the eponymous young sculptor in Roderick Hudson and spaces like the crowded galleries in The Wings of the Dove, Henry James's iconic novels reflect the significance of the visual culture of his society. In this book, novelist and critic Colm Toibin joins art historian Marc Simpson and Declan Kiely of The Morgan Library & Museum to reveal how essential the language and imagery of the arts-and friendships with artists-were to James's writing.
The authors consider the paintings, photographs, drawings, and sculpture produced by artists in James's circle, assess how his pictorial aesthetic developed, and discuss why he destroyed so many personal documents and what became of those that survived. In examining works by figures such as John La Farge, Hendrik Andersen, and John Singer Sargent alongside selections from James's novels, personal letters, and travel writings, Toibin, Simpson, and Kiely explore the novelist's artistic and social milieu. They show him to be a writer with a painterly eye for colors and textures, shapes and tastes, and for the blending of physical and psychological impressions. In many cases, the characters populating James's fiction are ciphers for his artist friends, whose demeanors and experiences inspired James to immortalize them on the page. He also wrote critically about art, most notably about the work of his friend Sargent.
A refreshing new perspective on a master novelist who was greatly nourished by his friendships with artists, Henry James and American Painting reveals a James whose literary imagination, in Toibin's words, "seemed most at ease with the image" and the work of creating fully realized portraits of his characters.
Table of Contents
Contents
"Director's Foreword"
Colin B. Bailey
"Henry James: Shadow and Substance"
Colm Toibin
"'I like ambiguities and detest great glares': Henry James and American Paintings"
Marc Simpson
"'Pardon my too many words':Henry James Manuscripts and Letters
at the Morgan Library & Museum"
Declan Kiely
Notes
Checklist of Henry James Manuscriptsand Letters in the Morgan Library & Museum
Exhibition Checklist
Works Cited in Abbreviated Form
Index
Acknowledgments
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