Main entry:

Smith, Lindsay.

Title & Author:

Victorian photography, painting, and poetry : the enigma of visibility in Ruskin, Morris, and the Pre-Raphaelites / Lindsay Smith.

Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Description:

xiv, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 6

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-239) and index.
1. Ruskin, Morris, and the (un)assertive eyes -- 2. 'Gaps on the mind's shelves': Ruskin's theory of the grotesque -- 3. 'The seed of the flower': photography and Pre-Raphaelitism -- 4. 'Where he cannot see, he will not venture far': the critical reception of The Defence of Guenevere -- 5. The optical agency of 'Rapunzel' -- 6. The politics of sight: The Defence of Guenevere and the optical determinants of medieval topography -- 7. Coda: through yellow lenses.

Summary:

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.

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ISBN:

0521472881 (hardback)
9780521472883 (hardback)
9780521054683
0521054680

Subject:

Morris, William, 1834-1896.
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Morris, William 1834-1896
Ruskin, John 1819-1900
Englisch, ...
Morris, William, (1834-1896) Esthétique.
Ruskin, John, (1819-1900) Esthétique.
Morris, William (Künstler, 1834-1896)
Ruskin, John.
Arts, Victorian Great Britain.
Arts, British.
Visual perception.
Visual Perception
Arts victoriens Grande-Bretagne.
Arts britanniques.
Perception visuelle.
visual perception.
Arts, Victorian
Druckwerk
Literatur
Lyrik
Malerei
Fotografie
Poetik
Präraffaeliten
Schilderkunst.
Letterkunde.
Victoriaanse tijd.
Visuele waarneming.
Arts, English.
Poésie anglaise 19e siècle.
Art Grande-Bretagne 19e siècle.
Art victorien.
Peinture victorienne.
Littérature et photographie.
Littérature anglaise 19e siècle Histoire et critique.
Perception visuelle dans la littérature.
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Englisch.
Visual arts

Added entries:

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 6.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 85808
Call No.: ID PLS NX543.S6; ID:95-B3839
Status: Available