The Gentle Art Of Making Enemies Whistler

By alfred werner paperback january 1 1967 by james mcneill whistler author 2 3 out of 5 stars 13 ratings.

The gentle art of making enemies whistler.

The gentle art of making enemies is a book by the painter james mcneill whistler published in 1890. The gentle art of making enemies is a book by the painter james mcneill whistler published in 1890. As a historical document it is the best statement of the new aesthetics versus the old guard academics and it helped greatly in shaping the modern feeling toward art. The gentle art designed by whistler himself is a highly entertaining account of personal revenges but it is also an iconoclast s plea for a new and better attitude toward painting.

The book was in part a response to in part a transcript of whistler s famous libel suit against critic john ruskin. A man ahead of his time whistler s paintings shocked the artistic sensibilities of the day and won him many enemies in influential art circles in europe and america.