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The great John Singer Sargent nude of Thomas E. McKeller now in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts is Douglass Shand-Tucci's point of departure for a dramatic new chapter of The Art of Scandal: "Isabella Stewart Gardner, Modernist Twice Over: Finale in a Liminal Space". The centerpiece of this new chapter is a path-breaking exploration of Gardner's role as the ally of MIT's Desmond Fitzgerald in 1913 in radically reimagining the famous Armory Show as it appeared in New York and in Chicago. The result, Shand-Tucci asserts, is that the Boston iteration of the Armory Show in Copley Square, until now largely dismissed as a failure, was arguably the most intense and compelling and by no means the least influential of the three versions of the exhibition which launched modern art in America.
"INTIMATE, ENGROSSING BIOGRAPHY... Finally gives the creator of one of the world's great museums credit for her achievements." -The New Yorker
"The narrative is one long, messy, juicy gossip peppered with exclamations... But gossip is an effective rhetoric for this life... Gardner may have hoped, by burning her letters, to escape capture in yet another book plotted like a novel by Henry James. She might have liked this garrulous, sociable portrait of her time." -Diane Wood Middlebrook, New York Times Book Review
"[Shand-Tucci] dares to paint in words the woman John Singer Sargent painted on canvas... She is always engagingly human and brimming with life." -Daniel Aaron, The New Republic
"Gardner's heretofore fugitive life story is riveting because Shand-Tucci turns out to be erudite, witty, and wise... Shand-Tucci describes her adventures, eccentricities, and resounding success as a muse, mentor, patron, and designer, shedding light on a singular woman and her influential role in the evolution of American culture." -Booklist
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- EditoreBack Bay Historical
- Data di pubblicazione2016
- ISBN 10 0692032215
- ISBN 13 9780692032213
- RilegaturaPaperback
- Numero di pagine422
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