Chasing beauty the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
Chronicles the life of the creator of one of America's most stunning museums-an American original whose own life was remade by art; includes archival photos of her world, museum and the art she collected.
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New York :
Mariner Books,
[2024]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Chasing beauty : |b the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner / |c Natalie Dykstra. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Mariner Books, |c [2024] | |
| 300 | |a 495 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations (some color) ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 520 | |a Chronicles the life of the creator of one of America's most stunning museums-an American original whose own life was remade by art; includes archival photos of her world, museum and the art she collected. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-478) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Prologue: Notes on a museum -- Part 1: Becoming belle. New york girl -- 'A far-famed city' -- Mr. and Mrs. Jack -- 'Remaining dear ones' -- Part II: Around the world. A return -- 'Mrs. Gardner's album' -- 'Zodiacal light' -- 'Millionaire bohemienne' -- The comopolitan -- Part III: Motion and light. The way of the traveler -- 'A whirlwind of suggestion' -- 'The fiddling place' -- Love and power -- Seeing wonder -- Part IV: Fancy things and ordinary objects. 'Dazzling' -- In the middle of things -- The concert -- To remake the world -- 'The age of Mrs. Jack' -- A poem -- 'List of things for the museum' -- 'I always knew where to find him' -- Part V: One-woman museum. Fenway court -- God is in the details -- Unfathomable heart -- 'Lonesome cloud' -- 'The whole interesting world of Paris' -- 'Undying beauty and light' -- Part VI: A dream of youth. Seeing and hearing modernism -- The dancer -- 'Blood and thunder' -- 'Very much alive' -- Spring -- Epilogue: Lacrimae rerum, or the tears of things -- Acknowledgments -- A note on sources -- List of illustrations -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index. | |
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