Transnational Perspectives on Artists' Lives

Marleen Rensen

ISBN 10: 3030452026 / ISBN 13: 9783030452025

Edité par Springer, 2021

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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 orinternationalinfluences, and analysescross-culturalrepresentations 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' Livesopens up rich avenues for researching transnationality in the cultural domain at large.

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• Titre: Transnational Perspectives on Artists' Lives
• Éditeur: Springer
• Date de parution: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3030452026
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783030452025
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 210 L x 148 H x 16 P (en millimètres) 210 millimètres de largeur par 148 millimètres de hauteur par 16 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 381 grammes

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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.

À propos de l'auteur

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).