本书探讨了艺术家詹姆斯·麦克尼尔·惠斯勒和他的首席模特乔安娜·希弗南的合作关系，以及源自他们的共同生活的著名艺术作品

1860年，詹姆斯·麦克尼尔·惠斯勒（James McNeill Whistler，1834-1903年）和乔安娜·希弗南（Joanna Hiffernan，1839-1886年）相遇，并开始了一段重要的工作和个人关系。Hiffernan为惠斯勒的许多作品充当模特，包括他引起争议的系列画作《白色交响曲》，这个三部曲与性和道德、阶级和时尚、学术和现实主义艺术、维多利亚时代的流行小说、唯美主义和精神主义有着复杂的联系，既让观众着迷，又让他们不解。这本插图丰富的书籍首次全面介绍了希弗南与惠斯勒在整个19世纪60年代和19世纪70年代的合作关系——这一时期，惠斯勒获得了他那一代人中最具创新精神和影响力的艺术家之一的声誉。一系列文章讨论了希弗南和惠斯勒如何颠覆艺术传统，并揭示了他们与同时代人的互动，包括古斯塔夫·库尔贝（Hiffernan也充当过他的模特）。这项研究充满了对惠斯勒著名作品的创作、营销和文化背景的新简介，同时还探讨了这些作品引发的对其他艺术家的联想，包括但丁·加布里埃尔·罗塞蒂、埃德加·德加、约翰·辛格·萨金特和古斯塔夫·克里姆特。

A fascinating look at the partnership of artist James McNeill Whistler and his chief model, Joanna Hiffernan, and the iconic works of art resulting from their life together

In 1860 James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) and Joanna Hiffernan (1839–1886) met and began a significant professional and personal relationship. Hiffernan posed as a model for many of Whistler’s works, including his controversial Symphony in White paintings, a trilogy that fascinated and challenged viewers with its complex associations with sex and morality, class and fashion, academic and realist art, Victorian popular fiction, aestheticism and spiritualism. This luxuriously illustrated volume provides the first comprehensive account of Hiffernan’s partnership with Whistler throughout the 1860s and 1870s―a period when Whistler was forging a reputation as one of the most innovative and influential artists of his generation. A series of essays discusses how Hiffernan and Whistler overturned artistic conventions and sheds light on their interactions with contemporaries, including Gustave Courbet, for whom she also modeled. Packed with new insights into the creation, marketing, and cultural context of Whistler’s iconic works, this study also traces their resonance for his fellow artists, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edgar Degas, John Singer Sargent, and Gustav Klimt.