The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

The Gentle Art of Making EnemiesWhistler's Gentle Art, a classic in the literature of insult and denigration, might well be subtitled "The Autobiography of a Hater," for it contains the deadly sarcasm and stinging remarks of one of the wittiest men of the nineteenth century. Whistler not only refused to tolerate misunderstanding by critics and the so called art loving public but launched vicious counterattacks as well. His celebrated passages at arms with Oscar Wilde and Swinburne,

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and the emotional range — from blissful contentment to pensive melancholy — of these works place them firmly among the undisputed piano classics

although some are also found as far south as Florida and Texas and as far west as the Pacific coast

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Reprint of the edition published by the Marine Research Society

The articles of furniture depicted are extremely varied: chairs

from architectural detail to decorative textile printing and typographic patterns

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