Refashioning modern masculinity : Whistler, aestheticism and national identity
- Author
- Stephenson, Andrew
- Document type
- Article (acte de congrès)
- Language
English
- Conference title
- English art 1860-1914 : modern artists and identity
- Author (monograph)
- Corbett, David Peters (Editor, Collective Author); Perry, Lara (Editor, Collective Author)
- Source
- English art 1860-1914 : modern artists and identity. 2000, 133-149, 243-248, 6 ill.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press, Manchester (gbr)
- Publication country
- United Kingdom
- Abstract (en)
- Examines the ways in which Whistler defined and negotiated his own identity within the new art worlds of late 19th c. London and Paris. Argues that Whistler was a self-conscious manipulator of his own image as part of the imperative to set English painting against the French tradition, as a defining moment of English modernity. Gender and the definition of gender roles played an important part both in the nature of Whistler's work and in its reception by critics and other painters. Whistler was seen as effeminate, a dandy and poseur whose character powerfully signalled contemporary debates about the body, sexuality and cultural decadence.
- Subject (en)
- Subject (fr)
- Origin
DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)
Identifier20010101-00147178
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