Writing the lives of painters: biography and artistic identity in britain 1760-1810

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. INDICE: 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

• ISBN: 978-0-19-959700-0
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 27/01/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés