The Victorian Artist: Artists' Life Writings in Britain, C.1870-1910
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The Victorian Artist, first published in 2003, examines the origins, development, and explosion of biographical literature on artists in Britain between 1870 and 1910. Analyzing a variety of narrative modes, including gossip, anecdotes, and serialization, as well as the differences among genres - autobiographies, family biographies, biographical histories, and dictionaries - Julie Codell discerns and articulates the multiple, often conflicting identities that were ascribed to artists collectively and as individuals. Her study demonstrates how this body of literature, combined with images of artists' bodies, their works and their studios, reflected anxiety over economic exchanges in the art world, aestheticism, and the desire to tame artists in order to fit them into an emerging national identity as a way of socializing new audiences of readers and spectators. Her book provides a sociological and cultural overview of the art world in Britain in the decades before World War I.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1107407400
ISBN13:9781107407404
Release Date:September 2012
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:394 Pages
Weight:1.16 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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