In May 1914, a feminist entered the Royal Academy in London carrying a concealed meat cleaver to attack John Singer Sargent’s portrait of novelist Henry James. “I have tried,” the woman explained, “to destroy a valuable picture because I wish to show the public that they have no security for their property nor their art […]
Read MoreA Damaged and Disorienting Portrait
- Post by: Bryce J. Christensen
- September 15, 2009