Biography and the Objective Fallacy
"Pater's Experiment in "A Prince of Court Painters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3806282 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne Marie Candido (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 147-160 |
| Publication date | 1993-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-4962 • E-ISSN: 1529-1456 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bio.2010.0388 |
| OpenAlex | W2038692115 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
In his portrait of Watteau, Pater explores the complex human sympathetic and empathic perspectives that are almost inevitably behind most biographical facts, as well as a part of the biographer's own psychological relationship with his subject. Pater's portrait strongly suggests that objective portrayal is both futile and undesirable; artistic integrity and faithfulness to his vision of the subject, rather, should be the biographer's principal aim
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Biography · Epistemology · Fallacy · Literature · Painting · Portrait · Computer Science · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |