The Victorian artist : artists' lifewritings in Britain, ca. 1870-1910 /
Her study demonstrates how this body of literature, combined with images of artists' bodies, their works, and their studios, reflected anxiety over economic exchanges in the art world, aestheticism, and the desire to tame artists in order to fit them into an emerging national identity as a way...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Online Access: | Sample text Table of contents Table of contents Table of contents Publisher description Rezension Rezension |
| Summary: | Her study demonstrates how this body of literature, combined with images of artists' bodies, their works, and their studios, reflected anxiety over economic exchanges in the art world, aestheticism, and the desire to tame artists in order to fit them into an emerging national identity as a way of socializing new audiences of readers and spectators. Her book serves as a timely sociological and cultural overview of the art world in Britain in the decades before World War I."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-369) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521817579 9780521817578 |