The Victorian Artist, first published in 2003, analyzes a variety of narrative modes to examines the origins, development, and explosion of biographical literature on artists in Britain between 1870 and 1910. It serves as a timely sociological and cultural overview of the art world in Britain in the decades before World War I.
The Victorian Artist, first published in 2003, analyzes a variety of narrative modes to examines the origins, development, and explosion of biographical literature on artists in Britain between 1870 and 1910. It serves as a timely sociological and cultural overview of the art world in Britain in the decades before World War I.
Introduction: the artists as text 1. Biographical functions, mediations and exchanges 2. The Victorian typology of artists: from prelapsarian to professional 3. Artists' autobiographies: Cellini, Res Gestae, jouissance, and the collective life 4. Family biographies: domestic authority, social order, and the artist's body 5. Biography as history: anecdotage, serialization, and national identity Conclusion: gifting art: from Bohemians to benefactors.
Introduction: the artists as text 1. Biographical functions, mediations and exchanges 2. The Victorian typology of artists: from prelapsarian to professional 3. Artists' autobiographies: Cellini, Res Gestae, jouissance, and the collective life 4. Family biographies: domestic authority, social order, and the artist's body 5. Biography as history: anecdotage, serialization, and national identity Conclusion: gifting art: from Bohemians to benefactors.
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