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Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change

Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change

Whistler, James McNeill
Curry, David Park

Hardcover

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ISBN10: 1636810942
ISBN13: 9781636810942
Publisher: Delmonico Books
Published: Oct 24 2023
Pages: 128
Weight: 2.00
Height: 0.71 Width: 9.21 Depth: 10.47
Language: English

An in-depth look at Whistler's city streets and storefronts, addressing the phenomena of urbanization and gentrification, past and present

Published with Colby College Museum of Art and National Museum of Asian Art.

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) created hundreds of works that depicted urban contexts undergoing rapid transformation. This handsome volume sheds new light on his picturesque representations of London's shifting urban landscape during the Victorian era. Despite Whistler's aversion to overtly political themes, his artworks reveal a long-term engagement with social change. Properties for the newly rich replaced historic buildings and shops, forcing many into squalid conditions. The images featured here, primarily drawn from the permanent collections of the Colby College Museum of Art and the National Museum of Asian Art, bear witness to the uncertainties of modern metropolitan life that Whistler saw firsthand. However, his streetscapes also reflect the modern practice of artwashing, wherein the negative consequences of gentrification are hidden by aesthetic screens. This book asks the reader to consider the intention and function of these engaging images: to memorialize the new struggles of the urban poor or to romanticize poverty for a rising middle-class art market.

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