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Victorian Photography, Painting and Poetry
Lindsay Smith
其他書名
The Enigma of Visibility in Ruskin, Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites
出版Cambridge University Press, 1995
主題Art / Techniques / PaintingPhotography / GeneralPoetry / General
ISBN05214728819780521472883
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=aQNyQgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋This book explores for the first time 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.