Victorian Photography, Painting and Poetry

The Enigma of Visibility in Ruskin, Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites

By:

Lindsay Smith

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

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This book explores the intersections between Victorian literature, painting and photography. Taking as a starting point mid-nineteenth-century developments in the understanding of visual perception, Lindsay Smith examines the representation of a pervasive desire for a literal understanding of the process of seeing and perceiving. This is played out in the aesthetic theory of John Ruskin, the early poetry of William Morris, paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites, and in the photographic technique of combination printing. She demonstrates how the novel presence of the camera in nineteenth-century culture not only transforms acts of looking, but also affects major social, aesthetic and philosophical categories. By exploring the intricacies of photographic discourse she shows how Ruskin and Morris produce a critique of the earlier Cartesian perspectival model of vision.

Release date NZ

January 28th, 2008

Author

Lindsay Smith

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

12 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

264

Series

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Dimensions

152x230x15

ISBN-13

9780521054683

Product ID

2461233

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