Walter Sickert: A Life (Text Only)

图书信息

作者	Matthew Sturgis
出版社	Harper Perennial
ISBN	9780007374342
出版时间	2014-02-06
字数	160.9万
分类	进口书,外文原版书,文学,自传,回忆录

读书简介

This edition does not include illustrations. The first major life of the outstanding British painter – and Jack the Ripper suspect – Walter Sickert (1860-1942), by the highly acclaimed biographer of Aubrey Beardsley. Walter Richard Sickert is perhaps the outstanding figure of British art during the last hundred years. Many contemporary painters, from Hodgkin and Bacon to Auerbach and Kossof, acknowledge a debt to his influence. His career spanned six decades of unceasing experiment and achievement. As a young artist, he was welcomed and encouraged by Degas. He was the disciple of Whistler and mentor of Beardsley. He founded the London Impressionists and the Camden Town Group. He was taken up by both the Woolfs and the Sitwells. He gave painting lessons to Winston Churchill. His energy was prodigious and his personality fascinating: he was also an illustrator, cartoonist, writer, polemicist, teacher and wit. He relished controversy: his early paintings of London music halls and his late works, based on 18th-century etchings and contemporary news photographs, provoked outraged criticism from conventional commentators. Sturgis also devotes an appendix to charting in detail Sickert's posthumous life as a player in the 'Jack the Ripper' circus, assessing (and demolishing) the arguments of Patricia Cornwell and others in the light of his own discoveries.

目录

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

1: A Well-Bred Artist

I: The Münchener Kind’l’

II: A New Home

III: L’enfant Terrible

2: Apprentice or Student?

I: The Utility Player

II: Whistler’s Studio

III: Relative Values

3: Impressions and Opinions

I: The Butterfly Propaganda

II: A New English Artist

III: The London Impressionists

IV: Unfashionable Portraiture

V: In Black and White

4: The End of the Act

I: Gathering Clouds

II: Bridge of Sighs

III: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

IV: Amantium Irae

5: Jack Abroad

I: A Watering Place Out of Season

II: Changing Effects

III: Gaîté Montparnasse

IV: Dal Vero

6: Londra Benedetta

I: The Lady in Red

II Ambrosial Nights

III: Mr Sickert at Home

IV: The Artist as Teacher

7: Contre Jour

I: Les Affaires de Camden Town

II: An Imperfect Modern

III: Red, White, and Blue

IV: Suspense

8: The New Age

I: The Conduct of a Talent

II: Private View

III: How Old Do I Look?

9: Lazarus Raised

I: Over the Footlights

II: Home Life

III: Bathampton

IV: Cheerio

Postscript Walter Sickert: Case Closed

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgements and Preface

Notes

Praise

By the Same Author

Copyright

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