Helmreich, Anne, Nature's truth , [2016]
- Title(s):
Nature's truth : photography, painting, and science in Victorian Britain / Anne Helmreich.
- Published/Created:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]
©2016 - Physical Description:
- xii, 255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryN72.S3 H45 2016 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12979782
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-235) and index.
"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. - Subject Terms:
- Art and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.Nature (Aesthetics)Painting, British -- 19th century.Photography -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.Pre-Raphaelitism -- Great Britain.
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- 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.