Nature's truth : photography, painting, and science in Victorian Britain / Anne Helmreich.
Nature's truth : photography, painting, and science in Victorian Britain / Anne Helmreich.
Nature's truth : photography, painting, and science in Victorian Britain / Anne Helmreich.
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Publisher
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]
Call Numbers
G 2017/1382
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Language
English
Physical Description
Physical content
xii, 255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Truth to nature and the "innocent eye" -- John Everett Millais and John Brett : the rise of imagination and the crisis of Pre-Raphaelitism -- P. H. Emerson and George Clausen : renouncing the quest -- Neorealism : truth to nature in modernist critical debate.
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Publisher
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]
Date Published
[2016]
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"Investigates why nineteenth-century British painters and photographers as diverse as the Pre-Raphaelites, P. H. Emerson, and Augustus John pursued truth to nature, and how contemporary science and philosophy informed their artistic practice and the critical reception of their work"--Provided by publisher.
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Full title
Nature's truth : photography, painting, and science in Victorian Britain / Anne Helmreich.
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Notes
General note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-235) and index.
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Call Numbers
G 2017/1382
Record Identifier
74VKVR80jedM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVR80jedM
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ISBN
9780271071145
DDC
701/.050941
MMS ID
991024075215702626
