The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

About this eBook

Author

Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903

Credits

E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Christine P. Travers, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net)

Language

English

LoC Class

ND: Fine Arts: Painting

Subject

Painting

Category

Text

eBook-No.

24650

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24650

Release Date

February 19, 2008

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE GENTLE ART OF MAKING ENEMIES
2. 2.James Abbott McNeill Whistler — AN EXTRAORDINARY PIRATICAL PLOT — SEIZURE OF MR WHISTLER'S PIRATED WRITINGS — THE EXPLODED PLOT — MR. WHISTLER'S PAPER HUNT — A GREAT LITERARY CURIOSITY — A LAST EFFORT — "Messieurs les Ennemis!" — Prologue — The Action — Professor Ruskin's Group — Whistler v. Ruskin: Art and Art Critics — The Art Critic of the "Times" — The Position — Serious Sarcasm — Final — "Balaam's Ass" — The Point acknowledged — Critic's Analysis — The Critic's Mind Considered — A Troubled One — Full Absolution — "Confidences" with an Editor — Critics "Copy" — A Proposal — The Painter-Etcher Papers — Later — La Suite — A Correction — A Warning — Naïf Enfant — A Straight Tip — An Eager Authority — An Admission — 'Arry in the Grosvenor — Encouragement — A Remonstrance — Propositions — An Unanswered Letter — Inconsequences — Uncovered Opinions — The Fate of an Anecdote — In Excelsis — A Suspicion — Conviction — Taking the Bait — An Apology — "Jeux Innocents" in Tite Street — A Line from the Lands End — The Easy Expert — Propositions—No. 2 — A Hint — A Distinction — A Document — Sacrilege — The Red Rag — A Rebuke — "Les points sur les i" — MR. WHISTLER'S TEN O'CLOCK " — " Rengaines! " — Tenderness in Tite Street — To the Committee of the "National Art Exhibition" — Quand même! — Philanthropy and Art — " Nous avons changé tout cela! " — The Inevitable — " Noblesse oblige " — Early Laurels — A Further Proposition — An Opportunity — The Opportunity Neglected — Nostalgia — An Insinuation — An Imputation — " Autre Temps autre Mœurs " — Talent in a Napkin — The Critic "Catching on" — Ingratitude — The Complacent One — The Critic-flâneur — A Played-out Policy — An Interview with an ex-President — Statistics — A Retrospect — The New Dynasty — An Embroidered Interview — The "Pall Mall" Puzzled — Official Bumbledom — " Aussi que diable allait-il faire dans cette galère? " — The Royal Society of British Artists and their Signboard — An Official Letter — The Home of Taste — Another Poacher in the Chelsea Preserves — A Suggestion — The Habit of Second Natures — In the Market Place — Panic — Just Indignation — An Advanced Critic — The Advantage of Explanation — Testimony — An Apostasy — " Et tu, Brute! " — Freeing a Last Friend — An Editor's Anxiety — Rassurez vous! — Whistler's Grievance — " Whacking Whistler " — " Whistler's Grievance " — The Art-Critic's Friend — A Question — The End of the Piece — Exit the Prompter — L'Envoi — Auto-Biographical — Mr. Whistler "had on his own Toast" — What "Mr. Whistler had on his own Toast" — " THE VOICE OF A PEOPLE " — A Zealous Inquirer — Final Acknowledgments — INDEX

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