Victorian Artists' Autograph Replicas: Auras, Aesthetics, Patronage and the Art Market

    This book is a wide-ranging exploration of the production of Victorian art autograph replicas, a painting’s subsequent versions created by the same artist who painted the first version.

    Autograph replicas were considered originals, not copies, and were highly valued by collectors in Britain, America, Japan, Australia, and South Africa. Motivated by complex combinations of aesthetic and commercial interests, replicas generated a global, and especially transatlantic, market between the 1870s and the 1940s, and almost all collected replicas were eventually donated to US public museums, giving replicas authority in matters of public taste and museums’ modern cultural roles.

    This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, museum studies, and economic history.

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    Victorian Artists' Autograph Replicas: Auras, Aesthetics, Patronage and the Art Market

      This book is a wide-ranging exploration of the production of Victorian art autograph replicas, a painting’s subsequent versions created by the same artist who painted the first version.

      Autograph replicas were considered originals, not copies, and were highly valued by collectors in Britain, America, Japan, Australia, and South Africa. Motivated by complex combinations of aesthetic and commercial interests, replicas generated a global, and especially transatlantic, market between the 1870s and the 1940s, and almost all collected replicas were eventually donated to US public museums, giving replicas authority in matters of public taste and museums’ modern cultural roles.

      This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, museum studies, and economic history.

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      Victorian Artists' Autograph Replicas: Auras, Aesthetics, Patronage and the Art Market

      Victorian Artists' Autograph Replicas: Auras, Aesthetics, Patronage and the Art Market

      by Julie F. Codell (Editor)
      Victorian Artists' Autograph Replicas: Auras, Aesthetics, Patronage and the Art Market

      Victorian Artists' Autograph Replicas: Auras, Aesthetics, Patronage and the Art Market

      by Julie F. Codell (Editor)

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        This book is a wide-ranging exploration of the production of Victorian art autograph replicas, a painting’s subsequent versions created by the same artist who painted the first version.

        Autograph replicas were considered originals, not copies, and were highly valued by collectors in Britain, America, Japan, Australia, and South Africa. Motivated by complex combinations of aesthetic and commercial interests, replicas generated a global, and especially transatlantic, market between the 1870s and the 1940s, and almost all collected replicas were eventually donated to US public museums, giving replicas authority in matters of public taste and museums’ modern cultural roles.

        This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, museum studies, and economic history.


        Product Details

        ISBN-13: 9780367145828
        Publisher: Taylor & Francis
        Publication date: 05/26/2020
        Series: British Art: Histories and Interpretations since 1700
        Pages: 314
        Product dimensions: 6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

        About the Author

        Julie F. Codell is Professor of Art History at Arizona State University, and affiliate faculty in the Asian Research Center, and Film and Media Studies.

        Table of Contents

        I. Introduction

        1. Artists' Autograph Replicas: Auras, Aesthetics, Copyright, and Economics - Julie F. Codell

        II. Autograph Replicas: Location as Meaning

        2. The American Replica: The Politics and Status of the Artist's Autograph Replica in the Gilded Age - Jo Briggs

        3. "Mere dead copies"? Frank Holl’s Newgate and the Lives of Painted Replicas - Andrea Korda

        III. A Case Study: Albert Moore

        4. Albert Moore: Themes and Variations - Richard Green

        5. Repetition, Aestheticism, and Copyright Law in the Art Practice of Albert Moore - Robyn Asleson

        IV. Replicas and Artists’ Agency

        6. Patrons' Desire: Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Prolific Replicas - Julie F. Codell

        7. Ford Madox Brown, Cultural Experience, and the Promise of the Replica - Colin Trodd

        8. William Powell Frith’s Double Life: An Artist Coping with a Changing Market - Sally Woodcock

        V. Multiple Motivations

        9. The Uncertain Status of William Holman Hunt’s Oil Replicas - Judith Bronkhurst

        10. G. F. Watts’s Other Hope (1891): Anatomy of a Version - Barbara Bryant

        11. Dadd's Doubles - Nicholas Tromans

        12. "Splendid Architectural Paintings": The Replicas of David Roberts - Krystyna Matyjaszkiewicz with Briony Llewellyn

        VI. Creativity, Reputation, and the Market

        13. From Replica to Original: Abraham Solomon and the Market for Modern-Life Subjects - Pamela Fletcher

        14. Is He Repeating Himself? Creative, Aesthetic, and Commercial Dialogue in the Replicas of John Frederick Lewis - Briony Llewellyn

        15. Celebrated Variations on a Theme: The Replicas of Edward Coley Burne-Jones - Fiona Mann

        16. Elizabeth Thompson Butler: A Gendered Story of Replication? - Dorothy Nott

        17. Creating and Meeting Demand: James Tissot's London Replicas - Krystyna Matyjaszkiewicz

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