WHISTLER SOCIETY AUTHOR'S TALK WITH PAUL THOMAS MURPHY

AURIENS, CHELSEA

THURSDAY 6TH FEBRUARY 2025 6:30 PM (GMT)

Join Paul Thomas Murphy, author of Falling Rocket: James Whistler, John Ruskin and the Battle for Modern Art, join us in person for a lively Author's Talk.

Thursday, 6th February 2025

6:30 PM

Auriens

2 Dovehouse Street, London, SW3 6BF

£25 per person for non-members

Whistler Society members receive concessions

Please contact us at enquires@whistlersociety.org

We encourage you to bring a guest

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Falling Rocket narrates the never-fully-told story of the artistic battle between James Abbott McNeill Whistler and John Ruskin over Whistler’s controversial painting, ‘Nocturne in Black and Gold - The Falling Rocket’. In November 1878, America’s greatest painter sued England’s greatest critic for a bad review. The painter won—but ruined himself in the process. The internationally reported, widely discussed and hugely entertaining trial was a titanic battle between the opposing ideas and ideals of two larger-than-life personalities. For these two protagonists, Whistler v Ruskin was a battle of their two lifetimes, one with a profound impact upon their personal lives—and upon the course of modern art.

Paul Thomas Murphy, in addition to Falling Rocket, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, is the author of Shooting Victoria, a New York Times Notable Book, and Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane, a finalist for the Edgar Award for Fact Crime. He holds advanced degrees in Victorian Studies from Oxford and McGill Universities and the University of Colorado, where he taught both English and writing on interdisciplinary topics.

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