Nature's truth : photography, painting, and science in Victorian Britain / Anne Helmreich.

Main entry:

Helmreich, Anne, author.

Title & Author:

Nature's truth : photography, painting, and science in Victorian Britain / Anne Helmreich.

Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]

Description:

xii, 255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-235) and index.
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.

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.

ISBN:

9780271071145 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0271071141 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Millais, John Everett, Sir, 1829-1896.
Brett, John, 1831-1902.
Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936.
Clausen, George, 1852-1944.
Art and science Great Britain History 19th century.
Nature (Aesthetics)
Photography Great Britain History 19th century.
Painting, British 19th century.
Pre-Raphaelitism Great Britain.
Art et science Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Nature (Esthétique)
Photographie Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Peinture britannique 19e siècle.
Préraphaélisme Grande-Bretagne.
Art et sciences Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Art and science.
Painting, British.
Photography.
Pre-Raphaelitism.
Landschaftsfotografie
Landschaftsmalerei
Natürlichkeit
Naturfotografie
Naturwissenschaften
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
1830-1925

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 302014
Call No.: BIB 248237
Status: Available

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