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The Street of Wonderful Possibilities Devon Cox

The Street of Wonderful Possibilities par Devon Cox

The Street of Wonderful Possibilities Devon Cox

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Résumé

A beautifully illustrated art history and cultural biography of one of the most influential artistic quarters in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - London's Tite Street.

The Street of Wonderful Possibilities Résumé

The Street of Wonderful Possibilities: Whistler, Wilde and Sargent in Tite Street Devon Cox

This fascinating, absorbing, and beautifully illustrated work tells the story of one small London street which played host to some of the greatest artistic and intellectual minds of the Victorian era.

Quiet and unassuming on first glance, Tite Street in Chelsea, West London was nevertheless one of the most influential and important streets in the cultural life of the capital during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Playing host to the likes of Oscar Wilde,John Singer Sargent, James Whistler and Radclyffe Hall, the rich cultural history of this street is explored in characterful and captivating detail by acclaimed art historian Devon Cox. This brilliant and lively biography gets inside the lives of those who lived here, creating a vivid image of one small street which became the beating heart of London's artistic life.

Throughout its turbulent existence, Tite Street mirrored the world around it. From the Aesthetic movement and its challenge to Victorian values, through the Edwardian struggle for women's suffrage, to the bombs of the Blitz in the 1940s, it remained home to innumerable artists and writers, socialites and suffragettes, musicians and madmen.

With beautiful and insightful writing, Cox paints a vibrant picture of a street where artists and intellectuals flocked, exploring the connections, rivalries and competing artistic visions of the great minds who lived and thrived here.

The Street of Wonderful Possibilitiesreveals this complex history, tying together private and professional lives to form a colourful tapestry of art and intrigue, illuminating their relationships to each other, to Tite Street and to a rapidly modernising London at the fin de siecle.

The Street of Wonderful Possibilities Avis

'Devon Cox's beautifully written book is not only a scholarly and entertaining description of a vanished world but also a valuable work of reference.'


'Cox bounces back and forth across Tite Street, rallying his subjects like characters in a high-class soap opera... an assured and dazzling debut.'


'This is a well-researched, and eminently readable biography of one street in London, whose occupants make up a dramatis personae of outstanding talent over a period of 120 years... The result, with a red ribbon tastefully tied around it, would make a lovely box of chocolates.'


'This exceptionally handsome and well-illustrated book - a biography of the street, its residents and their connections - elucidates some of those possibilities. And pretty wonderful they are too.'

' A well-informed, nicely produced and generously illustrated book about Title Street in merrier, cheaper times, when it could claim to be the epicentre of art in England.'

' This colourful account reanimates the street and affirms its cultural importance.'

'This is a well-researched, and eminently readable biography of one street in London, whose occupants make up a dramatis personae of outstanding talent over a period of 120 years... The result, with a red ribbon tastefully tied around it, would make a lovely box of chocolates.'

'Well-researched and highly readable book.'

'This book is a fascinating and absorbing record of a time when Chelsea was at the edge of avant-garde.'

'This is much more than a coffee-table effort. It gives a fascinating, street-level perspective on a period when art mattered to high society, when jobbing architects could marry royal mistresses and when a penniless Italian caricaturist could find himself dining at Buckingham Palace.'

' This beautifully illustrated history of London's answer to the Left Bank would make a wonderful present for art lovers.'

'Cox has done an admirable job of marshalling his material...The books is well populated with the voices of its protagonists and their critics, lending it a rich anecdotal texture and allowing the great egos of Tite Street to speak for themselves. Mighty swells dwell here, wrote the American author Benjamin Ellis Martin in 1889, and here pose some famous farceurs in art and literature.'

'Richly anecdotal.'

'a fascinating, entertaining, well researched book... highly recommended.'

'This street became centre of London's fin-de-siecle art scene, which the historian Devon Cox has made the basis of an engrossing, detailed and somewhat melancholy group biography. Three titans of the era naturally dominate its pages, though in the background swells a lively and ever-changing cast of artists major and minor, muses, models, critics, princes and paupers, actors, rent boys, property speculators and assorted other villains.'

'A beautifully illustrated cultural biography.'

'This is an extraordinarily well-conceived, structured and produced book with all the pictures you could want, where you want them... An important book.'

'Cox bounces back and forth across Tite Street, rallying his subjects like characters in a high-class soap opera... an assured and dazzling debut.'

'Devon Cox's beautifully written book is not only a scholarly and entertaining description of a vanished world but also a valuable work of reference.'

À propos de Devon Cox

Devon Cox is a writer and historian specialising in late-Victorian art and culture. The Street of Wonderful Possibilities is his first book and he is now working on a biography of John Singer Sargent.

Informations supplémentaires

GOR012402108
9780711274525
0711274525
The Street of Wonderful Possibilities: Whistler, Wilde and Sargent in Tite Street Devon Cox
Devon Cox
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
Aurum Press
2022-02-01
320
N/A
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