Julie F. Codell (Arizona State University)

The Victorian Artist

Artists' Life Writings in Britain, C.1870 1910

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9781107407404
• ISBN-10: 1107407400
• Artikelnr.: 36197226

Inhaltsangabe

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.