This book explores the development of artists' biographies in the cultural context of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. It argues that the proliferation of a myriad biographical forms mirrored the privileging of artistic originality and difference within an art world that had yet to generate a coherent 'British School' of painting.
This book explores the development of artists' biographies in the cultural context of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. It argues that the proliferation of a myriad biographical forms mirrored the privileging of artistic originality and difference within an art world that had yet to generate a coherent 'British School' of painting.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Karen Junod is a Lecturer in English literature at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). She studied at the Universities of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) and Oxford. She was a James Osborn Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Beinecke Library, Yale University (2005-2006) and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford (2006-2008).
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List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Preface 1: Introduction: Biography vs. Literature, Art, and Criticism Series of Lives 2: Horace Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting in England (1762-1780) 3: William Beckford's Biographical Memoirs of Extraordinary Painters (1780) Individual Lives 4: William Hogarth: The Art of Biography and the Life of Anecdotes 5: Thomas Gainsborough: Life in a Sketch, Sketch of a Life 6: George Morland: Natural Art, Fictional Life, and Factual Biography 7: John Opie: Domesticity, Publicity, and Gender Conclusion Bibliography
List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Preface 1: Introduction: Biography vs. Literature, Art, and Criticism Series of Lives 2: Horace Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting in England (1762-1780) 3: William Beckford's Biographical Memoirs of Extraordinary Painters (1780) Individual Lives 4: William Hogarth: The Art of Biography and the Life of Anecdotes 5: Thomas Gainsborough: Life in a Sketch, Sketch of a Life 6: George Morland: Natural Art, Fictional Life, and Factual Biography 7: John Opie: Domesticity, Publicity, and Gender Conclusion Bibliography
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