Image: National Museum of Asian Art, Washington
The museum has announced a new publication by former curator Linda Merrill.
The book revisits James McNeill Whistler’s influential 1885 ‘Ten O’Clock’ lecture.
It reassesses Oscar Wilde’s role and combines art history with literary analysis.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo ‘art for art’s sake.’
