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The suicides of painters L茅opold Robert and Antoine-Jean Gros in 1835 left a deep imprint on the European imagination. Imitation Is Suicide examines a rash of notorious artist suicides that saw wide publicity in the Romantic era, showing how observers of the period鈥攆rom visual artists to novelists, art critics, biographers, and numerous others鈥攁t once commemorated those deaths and traced their origins to teacher-student relationships gone catastrophically wrong.

Marc Gotlieb also sheds light on figures like Eug猫ne Delacroix鈥攚ho controversially argued against the authority of tradition and sought to dismantle the prestige of the teacher鈥攁nd Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran, a highly influential art teacher who viewed education as recuperative, designed to protect students from external forces that hindered their natural development. Gotlieb traces how the relationship between teacher and student emerged as newly charged and frequently contested terrain, in the teaching studio but also long after instruction had ended. Against the classic scenario that saw masters instruct pupils in their own manner, it now fell to teachers to discourage such imitations. Gotlieb looks at real and fictionalized quarrels between teachers and students, including idealizing imagery around art education that made the case the teacher should stand aside. And he pairs such imagery with accounts of last paintings鈥攚orks completed prior to an artist鈥檚 suicide and thought to betray clues as to the pedagogical character of the crisis that brought an artist鈥檚 career to a violent terminus.

With new findings on familiar and lesser-known artists, Imitation Is Suicide demonstrates how the circumstances of an artist鈥檚 death, no less than their artistic education, could profoundly shape how their lives and works were interpreted and imbued with meaning.