The Painter's Eye: Notes and Essays on the Pictorial Arts

by Henry James

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674334946
Publisher:	Harvard
Publication date:	01/01/1956
Edition description:	Reprint 2014 ed.
Pages:	274
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Susan M. Griffin is chair and Justus Bier Professor of Humanities in the Department of English at the University of Louisville.

Date of Birth:

April 15, 1843

Date of Death:

February 28, 1916

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Attended school in France and Switzerland; Harvard Law School, 1862-63

Editorial Reviews

Art criticism was probably never better written in English than when James wrote it. Even when you disagree with James, it’s a pleasure to see how beautifully he phrases what he judges so badly. . . . James believed that the important thing for an art critic was to record his own impressions with as much freshness and wit as possible. He does this in the pieces in The Painter’s Eye.”—Joseph Wiesenfarth, University of Wisconsin-Madison


“Not only does James’s status as one of the premier perceivers of the Victorian period give this edition importance, but the art that he is writing about is now receiving more sympathetic scrutiny from historians and critics. The criticism is written with force and delicacy, and is intriguingly laced with the occasional gossip of the art monde.”—William Veeder, University of Chicago

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