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Author Fisher, Paul, 1960- author.

Title The grand affair : John Singer Sargent in his world / Paul Fisher.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B SARGENT, JOHN SINGER    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography  B-SARGENT FIS    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  759.13 SARGENT    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Gallery  759.13 SARGENT F    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description viii, 479 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [385]-451) and index.
Contents Prologue: the prince of the Glass Palace -- Mrs. Sargent's party -- The fig leaf -- Mountain men -- The school of Michelangelo -- "Rather too sinister a charm" -- The Rapins -- Little Billee -- Rosina's spell -- Travels in the dark -- Flash gatherings -- In the key of blue -- Diva trouble -- Baby Milbank -- The pact -- Nadir -- Broadway Bohemians -- The cavalier -- A king's existence -- The stage door -- Painted temples -- Sargent's gondolier -- Cosmopolitans -- The President's coat -- East of Jordan -- Detonations -- Empire's end -- The contortionist -- Miss Sargent's party.
Summary In The Grand Affair, the historian Paul Fisher offers a vivid life of the buttoned-up artist and his unbuttoned work. Sargent's nervy, edgy portraits exposed illicit or dark feelings in himself and his sitters--feelings that high society on both sides of the Atlantic found fascinating and off-putting. Fisher traces Singer's life from his wandering trans-European childhood to the salons of Paris, and the scandals and enthusiasms he caused, and on to London. There he mixed with eccentrics and aristocrats, and the likes of Henry James and Oscar Wilde, while at the same time forming a close relationship with a lightweight boxer who became his model, valet, and traveling partner. In later years, Sargent met up with his friend and patron Isabella Stewart Gardner around the world and devoted himself to a new model, the African American elevator operator and part-time contortionist Thomas McKeller, who would become the subject of some of Sargent's most daring and powerful work. Illuminating Sargent's restless itinerary, Fisher explores the enigmas of fin de siècle sexuality and art, fashioning a biography that grants the man and his paintings new and intense life. -- Provided by publisher.
Subject Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925.
Painters -- United States -- Biography.
ART / American / General.
Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925. (OCoLC)fst00006216
Painters. (OCoLC)fst01050530
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biographies.
ISBN 9780374165970 (hardcover)
0374165971 (hardcover)
Standard No. 40031490965
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