Overview
- Applies transnationality to artists’ biography and life writing and examines a range of subjects from the late nineteenth century to the present
- Explores the lives and works of artists who straddle different nations and cultures in biographies and biofictions, the study and writing of artists’ lives, and historical artists writing about one another
- Comprises a wide international coverage from England, France, Germany, Spain, Norway, Hungary, Russia, North America, South Africa and New Zealand, with experts from a diverse wide range of arts subjects including literature, music and the visual arts
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing (PSLW)
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About this book
This book demonstrates the significance of transnationality for studying and writing the lives of artists. While painters, musicians and writers have long been cast as symbols of their associated nations, recent research is increasingly drawing attention to those aspects of their lives and works that resist or challenge the national framework. The volume showcases different ways of treating transnationality in life writing by and about artists, investigating how the transnational can offer intriguing new insights on artists who straddle different nations and cultures. It further explores ways of adopting transnational perspectives in artists’ biographies in order to deal with experiences of cultural otherness or international influences, and analyses cross-cultural representations of artists in biography and biofiction. Gathering together insights from biographers and scholars with expertise in literature, music and the visual arts, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives opens up rich avenues for researching transnationality in the cultural domain at large.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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(Re)Thinking Biography—Artists in Between Nations and Cultures
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Writing the Lives of Transnational Artists
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Artists on Transnational Artists
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Fictional Representations of Artists’ Lives Transnationally
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Reviews
“The collection contributors come from a variety of disciplines—lifewriting studies, history, literature, music, and visual art—to consider biographical subjects from around the globe. ... The book encourages the exploration of the space between author and subject, and between subject and audience—topics that lifewriting scholars have explored, especially in the area of autobiography ... .” (Julie Codell, Biography, Vol. 46 (2), 2023)
‘This impressively varied and highly accessible book is characterized by an open and inclusive attitude towards the subjects it covers. Its innovative transnationalist perspective facilitates interaction between fields that really ought to communicate more. Refreshingly, it takes “fictional” life writing seriously as contributing to the shaping of the afterlives of artists. There may not be one way of “doing” biography, but, surely, this is the best way of doing biography research.’— Dr Dennis Kersten, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Marleen Rensen is Senior Lecturer in Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She has published numerous journal articles and book chapters, and co-edited and introduced the special collection Life Writing and European Identities (2019) and the volume Unhinging the National Framework: Perspectives on Transnational Life Writing (2020).
Christopher Wiley is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Surrey, UK. He is the author of many journal articles and book chapters, and the co-editor of volumes including Researching and Writing on Contemporary Art and Artists (2020), Writing About Contemporary Musicians (2020) and The Routledge Companion to Autoethnography and Self-Reflexivity in Music Studies (2021).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives
Editors: Marleen Rensen, Christopher Wiley
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45200-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45199-8Published: 07 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45202-5Published: 08 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45200-1Published: 06 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2730-9185
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9193
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 276
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Arts, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature