The Victorian Artist
Artists' Life Writings in Britain, c.1870-1910
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 14 August 2003
- ISBN 9780521817578
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages392 pages
- Size 236x160x28 mm
- Weight 876 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This 2003 book examines the origins, development, and explosion of biographical literature on artists in Britain between 1870 and 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.
Review of the hardback: 'The book gives a valuable overview of a flourishing market, which had (and has) a great influence on the posthumous reputation of some artists ... revealing and enjoyable ...' Burlington Magazine
Table of Contents:
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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