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Writing the Lives of Painters - Biography and Artistic Identity in Britain 1760-1810 (Hardcover)
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Writing the Lives of Painters - Biography and Artistic Identity in Britain 1760-1810 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford English Monographs
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Writing the Lives of Painters explores the development of artists'
biographies in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain.
During this period artists gradually distanced themselves from
artisans and began to be recognised for their imaginative and
intellectual skills. The development of the art market and the
burgeoning of an exhibition culture, as well as the foundation of
the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768, all contributed to redefining
the rank of artists in society. This social redefinition of the
status of artists in Britain was shaped by a thriving print
culture. Contemporary artists were discussed in a wide range of
literary forms, including exhibition reviews, art-critical
pamphlets, and journalistic gossip-columns. Biographical accounts
of modern artists emerged in a dialogue with these other types of
writing. This book is an account of a new literary genre, tracing
its emergence in the cultural context of the late eighteenth and
early nineteenth centuries. It considers artistic biography as a
malleable generic framework for investigation. Indeed, while the
lives of painters in Britain did not completely abandon traditional
tropes, the genre significantly widened its scope and created new
individual and social narratives that reflected and accommodated
the needs and desires of new reading audiences. Writing the Lives
of Painters also 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. Finally, by focusing on the
emergence of individual biographies of British artists, the book
examines how and why the art historiographic model established by
Georgio Vasari was gradually dismantled in the hands of British
biographers during the Romantic period.
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