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Darren Waterston
Filthy Lucre
- Rizzoli
- by Susan Cross, Lee Glazer and John Ott
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Publisher | Rizzoli |
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ISBN | 9780847844135 |
Author(s) | Susan Cross, Lee Glazer and John Ott |
Publication date | September 2014 |
Edition | Hardback |
Dimensions | mm |
Illustrations | 90 col.ill. |
Pages | 160 |
Language(s) | Eng. ed. |
Description
Inspired by James McNeill Whistler's famous Peacock Room, contemporary painter Darren Waterston creates his own decadent interpretation in a major installation at MASS MoCA. Darren Waterston's Filthy Lucre is a contemporary reimagining of James McNeill Whistler's decorative masterpiece Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room--originally a dining room in the London mansion of shipping magnate Frederick Leyland. In 1876 and 1877, Whistler transformed the space with painted leather walls, gilded shutters, and a ceiling reflecting the coppery golds and brilliant blues of a peacock's plumage. Waterston reconstructs the historical room as a sumptuous ruin, replete with reinterpretations of Whistler's paintings and 250 hand-painted vessels. This title features all-new photography of Whistler's and Waterston's rooms, accompanied by essays by their curators and a scholar of patronage.