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Author:
Helmreich, Anne, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96073447
Title:
Nature's truth : photography, painting, and science in Victorian Britain / Anne Helmreich.
Publisher:
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
xii, 255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Subject:
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 and science.
Nature (Aesthetics)
Painting, British.
Photography.
Pre-Raphaelitism.
Great Britain.
1800-1899
History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-235) and index.
Contents:
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:
0271071141
9780271071145
OCLC:
(OCoLC)931860556
LCCN:
2015044025
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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