The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by James McNeil Whistler documents Whistler’s “difference of opinion” with John Ruskin over one of Whistler’s paintings. Whistler was very much an artist, dealing creatively with the predicament of having been ostracized (and thus bankrupted) by polite society.
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The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by James McNeil Whistler documents Whistler’s “difference of opinion” with John Ruskin over one of Whistler’s paintings. Whistler was very much an artist, dealing creatively with the predicament of having been ostracized (and thus bankrupted) by polite society.