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The Idea of the English Landscape Painter : Genius as Alibi in the Early Nineteenth Century (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis)
The Idea of the English Landscape Painter Genius as Alibi in the Early Nineteenth Century - Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis Author:Kay Kriz Kriz examines the dramatic changes in English landscape painting during the time of Turner and Girtin, when the notion of painter as genius emerged. She argues that the concept was a category produced by critics, painters, and the public in opposition to such other ways of thinking about the artist as amateur, connoisseur, decadent Frenchman, an... more »d entrepreneur.« less