The Peacock Room: A Cultural Biography by Linda Merrill non-fiction and the problems of defining

and the problems of defining "class" values in the later Georgian era

His taste for impossibly buxom blondes—teetering on stiletto heels

have never before been seen in the West

The epitome of the modernist engineer-architect-artist

The Peacock Room: A Cultural Biography by Linda Merrill non-fiction and the problems of definingThe Peacock Room: A Cultural Biography by Linda Merrill folio. pp. 416. 105 colour plates & 150 b w illustrations. bibliography. index. hardcover. dw. with paper slipcase (fine condition). Washington: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institute & Yale University Press, [1998]. ISBN 10: 0300076118 ISBN 13: 9780300076110 _______________________________________________________________________________________________ An account of the creation of James