'Curiouser and curiouser' : John Singer Sargent's cosmopolitan aesthetics
In the introduction to her For Maurice: Five Unlikely Stories (1927), Vernon Lee recounts her childhood wonderings in Italy with a young John Singer Sargent, remarking: ‘…mysterious, uncanny, a wizard, serpent, sphinx; strange, weird, curious. Such, at all events, were the adjectives, the comparison...
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University of York
2015
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