Description:
This landmark study explores replication as a nineteenth-century phenomenon. Replication, defined by Victorian artists as subsequent versions of a first version, similar but changed, occurred in art, literature, the press, merchandising, and historical reproductions in architecture and museums.
Brief description: Julie Codell is Professor of Art History at Arizona State University. Her publications include Orientalism, Eroticism & Modern Visuality in Global Cultures (Routledge, 2016), The Victorian Artist: Artists' Life Writing in Britain (Cambridge UP, 2003) and Transculturation in British Art, 1770-1930 (Ashgate, 2012), among others.
Review Quotes: Introducing a very productive conceptual category for thinking about nineteenth-century evaluative systems and truth claims, this is a groundbreaking collection.-- "Pamela Fletcher, Bowdoin College"