'Writing the lives of painters'
Subtitle: biography and artistic identity in Britain, 1760-1810
By: Karen Junod
Series: Oxford English monographs; Oxford English monographs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780199597000
Subjects: Art and literature; Biography as a literary form; History
Other titles: Biography and artistic identity in Britain, 1760-1810
Description: This book explores the development of artists' biographies in the cultural context of 18th- and early 19th-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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-252) and index.
Table of contents: title: Contexts. biography vs. literature, art, and criticism; title: Series of lives. Horace Walpole's Anecdotes of painting in England (1762-1780) ; William Beckford's Biographical memoirs of extraordinary painters (1780); title: Individual lives. William Hogarth : the art of biography and the life of anecdotes ; Thomas Gainsborough : life in a sketch, sketch of a life ; George Morland : natural art, fictional life, and factual biography ; John Opie : domesticity, publicity, and gender.