The Victorian Artist: Artists' Life Writings in Britain, C.1870-1910

ISBN-13: 9780521817578 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 392 str.

Codell, Julie F.

Opis

This study examines the origins, development and explosion of biographical literature on artists in Britain between 1870 and 1910. It analyzes 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 the multiple, often conflicting identities that were ascribed to artists collectively, and as individuals. Her book serves as a timely sociological and cultural overview of the art world in Britain in the decades before World War I.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: '… a North American pioneer of the critical study of Victorian art and culture. …Codell's use of theory is relevant, concise, and clear … persuasive and not intrusive … results in fascinating conclusions about the audience for art … To read this book is to be helped in thinking anew about so many aspects of artistic culture in Britain … contributes greatly to the expansion of our understanding of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art. The foundation for a fuller and more pluralistic understanding of the period.' Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies

Spis treści

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.