Writing the Lives of Painters: Biography and Artistic Identity in Britain 1760-1810 - Oxford English Monographs - Junod, Karen (Lecturer in English literature, English Department, University of Fribourg) - Books - Oxford University Press - 9780199597000 - January 27, 2011
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Writing the Lives of Painters: Biography and Artistic Identity in Britain 1760-1810 - Oxford English Monographs

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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.


272 pages, 25 black-and-white halftones

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released January 27, 2011
ISBN13 9780199597000
Publishers Oxford University Press
Pages 272
Dimensions 147 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   502 g
Language English  

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