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University Press of Virginia, Published 1970. Hardcover, 201 pp.; 24 cm; First Edition; illustrated with black-and-white plates and a frontispiece portrait.
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In Very Good condition, no dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on front board and spine. Mild shelf wear to covers; mild fading to top edge and spine. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. A study of Henry James's lifelong engagement with painting and the visual arts and its bearing on his fiction and criticism, from the Dusseldorf school of his youth to the London Post-Impressionists. Traces his aesthetic sources, his use of the picturesque and the grand style, pictorialism in his theory of the novel, and the role of the connoisseur in his fiction. With black-and-white plates (Whistler, Sargent, Thomas Cole, Delaroche, Walter Gay, and others) and a frontispiece portrait of James. Includes notes, glossary, and index. Contents: The Apprenticeship of an Amateur; Aesthetic Sources and Assumptions; The Grand Style and the Picturesque; Aestheticism and Impressionism; Pictorialism in the Theory of the Novel; Art Devices and Parallels in the Fiction; The Artist and "Life"; The Connoisseurs and the "Free Spirits"; notes; glossary; index.