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...late 1930s, the work was conceived as a comic-populist valentine to their new country, one that would be suitable for school productions. Singable it is: the stream of songs and choruses exploits and gently parodies everything from American folksiness to Broadway jazziness, from Italian opera to Victorian ballads...
...Italianate Victorian house has an entry hall; a grand living room with fireplace, interior shutters, bay windows, wide pine floors; a dining room with original plaster moldings and formal French doors opening to the deck and gardens; and a modern chef's kitchen with oak floors and an arched ceiling...
...preference for the exquisitely designed moment over the slice of life, was new; it epitomized the idea of Art for Art's Sake. It was provocative, in 1871, to call a portrait of his mother Arrangement in Grey and Black. It implied that the hallowed sentimentality about motherhood in Victorian England was cultural baggage, that the aesthetic life of shapes mattered at least as much as social piety...
...absurd to class him with Degas or Manet. He didn't have the range, the formal toughness or the breadth of human curiosity for that. Yet sometimes he approached them, as in his finest portrait, his 1872-73 study of the Victorian sage Thomas Carlyle. When he sat for Whistler, Carlyle was 78 and heavy with fame, depression and guilt. All this is conveyed in the disturbed but massive black profile of the coat and in the tenderness of Whistler's treatment of the face...
...market, now they are bringing the market to their gardens. In all, Americans spent nearly $26 billion last year alone, up 15.5% from the year before and $9.6 billion from five years ago. The $8.4 billion on lawns, the $3.1 billion on flowers are just the beginning. The Victorian watering cart from Smith & Hawken costs $1,500. Tiffany offers a full-size sterling-silver shovel for $9,500. Boutiques bristle with garden furniture, fountains, gargoyles, gazebos, antique Parisian paving stones and authentic-looking archaeological debris. Finally, like sailing and skiing and polo, gardening now offers the wardrobe that reeks...