Victorian Photography, Painting and Poetry: The Enigma of Visibility in Ruskin, Morris, and the Pre-Raphaelites
by Smith, Lindsay
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG+/VG. Like new boards and block - clean and tight. Minor wear to dust cover.
- ISBN 10
- 0521472881
- ISBN 13
- 9780521472883
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About This Item
Great Britain: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, 1995. Hardcover. VG+/VG. Like new boards and block - clean and tight. Minor wear to dust cover.. Black boards with silver lettering on spine. Black and white illustrated dj. xiii 246 pp. 12 b+w plates. "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...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." - front flap dj. Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 6.
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- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
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- 165091
- Title
- Victorian Photography, Painting and Poetry: The Enigma of Visibility in Ruskin, Morris, and the Pre-Raphaelites
- Author
- Smith, Lindsay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0521472881
- ISBN 13
- 9780521472883
- Publisher
- Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge
- Place of Publication
- Great Britain
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- Victorian Arts; Victorian Culture; Photography; Ruskin; Morris; Pre-Raphaelites ; Victorian Arts ; ;
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