{"product_id":"the-street-of-wonderful-possibilities-isbn-9780711236738","title":"The Street of Wonderful Possibilities","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis beautifully illustrated art history and cultural biography tells the fascinating story of Tite street, where artistic talents including James Whistler, Oscar Wilde, and John Singer Sargent lived and thrived.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tite Street in Chelsea, West London was one of the most influential artistic quarters in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – a \u003cb\u003estaggering amount of talent thrived\u003c\/b\u003e in this little riverside street during the fin de siecle, \u003cb\u003efrom painters to writers to political activists.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor \u003cb\u003eWilde\u003c\/b\u003e, the street was full of ‘\u003cb\u003ewonderful possibilities’\u003c\/b\u003e, while for \u003cb\u003eWhistler \u003c\/b\u003eit was \u003cb\u003e‘the birthplace of art’,\u003c\/b\u003e where a new brand of aestheticism was nurtured in his controversial White House. \u003cb\u003eModern masterpieces in art and literature \u003c\/b\u003eflowed from the studios and houses of Tite Street, but t\u003cb\u003ehis bohemian enclave had a dark side as well.\u003c\/b\u003e Here Whistler was bankrupted, Frank Miles was sent to an asylum, Wilde was imprisoned, and Peter Warlock was gassed to death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout its turbulent existence, Tite Street mirrored the world around it. From the\u003cb\u003e Aesthetic movement \u003c\/b\u003eand its challenge to Victorian values, through the Edwardian\u003cb\u003e struggle for women’s suffrage\u003c\/b\u003e, to the \u003cb\u003ebombs of the Blitz in the 1940s\u003c\/b\u003e, it remained home to innumerable artists and writers, socialites and suffragettes, musicians and madmen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Street of Wonderful Possibilities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ereveals this complex history,\u003c\/b\u003e tying together private and professional lives to form a colourful tapestry of art and intrigue, illuminating their relationships to each other, to Tite Street and to a rapidly modernising London at the \u003ci\u003efin de siècle\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Frances Lincoln","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48241729011941,"sku":"NP9780711236738","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780711236738_a5ee2f43-72ff-453f-abbf-e60ecc44ba85.jpg?v=1771872940","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-street-of-wonderful-possibilities-isbn-9780711236738","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}