The Victorian Artist

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The Victorian Artist is written by Julie F. Codell and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1107407400 (ISBN 10) and 9781107407404 (ISBN 13).

This study examines the origins, development and explosion of biographical literature on artists in Britain between 1870 and 1910. It analyzes a variety of narrative modes, including gossip, anecdotes, and serialization, as well as the differences among genres (autobiographies, family biographies, biographical histories and dictionaries.) Julie Codell discerns the multiple, often conflicting identities that were ascribed to artists collectively, and as individuals. Her book serves as a timely sociological and cultural overview of the art world in Britain in the decades before World War I.