{"product_id":"the-grand-affair-john-singer-sargent-in-his-world-paperback","title":"The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Fisher\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement \u003c\/i\u003eB\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eook of the Year Long-listed for the Plutarch Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA bold new biography of the legendary painter John Singer Sargent, stressing the unruly emotions and furtive desires that drove his innovative work and defined the transatlantic, fin de si鐵le\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eculture he inhabited.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA great American artist, John Singer Sargent is also an abiding enigma. While dressing like a businessman and crafting a highly respectable persona, he scandalized viewers on both sides of the Atlantic with the frankness and sensuality of his work. He charmed the nouveaux riches as well as the old money, but he reserved his greatest sympathies for Bedouins, Spanish dancers, and the gondoliers of Venice. At the height of his renown in Britain and America, he quit his lucrative portrait-painting career to concentrate on allegorical murals with religious themes--and on nude drawings of male models that he kept to himself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Grand Affair\u003c\/i\u003e, the historian Paul Fisher offers a vivid life of the buttoned-up artist and his unbuttoned work. Sargent's nervy, edgy portraits exposed illicit or dark feelings in himself and his sitters--feelings that high society on both sides of the Atlantic found fascinating and off-putting. Fisher traces Singer's life from his wandering trans-European childhood to the salons of Paris, and the scandals and enthusiasms he caused, and on to London. There he mixed with eccentrics and aristocrats, and the likes of Henry James and Oscar Wilde, while at the same time forming a close relationship with a lightweight boxer who became his model, valet, and traveling partner. In later years, Sargent met up with his friend and patron Isabella Stewart Gardner around the world and devoted himself to a new model, the African American elevator operator and part-time contortionist Thomas McKeller, who would become the subject of some of Sargent's most daring and powerful work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIlluminating Sargent's restless itinerary, Fisher explores the enigmas of fin de si鐵le sexuality and art, fashioning a biography that grants the man and his paintings new and intense life.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Fisher \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of American studies at Wellesley College and the author of \u003ci\u003eHouse of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eArtful Itineraries: European Art and American Careers in High Culture, 1865-1920\u003c\/i\u003e. He helped organize the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's pathbreaking 2020 exhibit \u003ci\u003eBoston's Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent\u003c\/i\u003e and contributed to the exhibition catalog, which won the 2020 George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award for an outstanding publication in the visual arts and architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.2 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764564427040,"sku":"9781250872548","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d3070c2a4aca8140033063a808e4d762.webp?v=1780252298","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-grand-affair-john-singer-sargent-in-his-world-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}