Julia Margaret Cameron’s ‘fancy subjects’ Photographic allegories of Victorian identity and empire /
Rosen, Jeff,1957-auteur.
Ignored or derided until now, this book looks at Cameron's allegorical work in relation to the political and artistic zeitgeist of the Victorian period.
Specialized.
Previously issued in print: 2016.
Specialized.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Saint Pierre's exiles : myths of origins and national identity -- Jowett's scriptures : the moral life and the state -- Grote's Hellenism : Victorian Parnassus on the Isle of Wight -- Byron's 'Beauties' : national heroines and defenders of liberty -- Overstone's 'Negromania' : justness and justice at home and abroad -- Tennyson's nationalism : epic and lyric in Idylls of the king -- North's gardens : redemption and the return to origins.
Ignored or derided until now, this book looks at Cameron's allegorical work in relation to the political and artistic zeitgeist of the Victorian period.
Description based on print version record.
Cameron, Julia Margaret, 1815-1879.
Cameron, Julia Margaret, 1815-1879.
Symbolism in art.
Photography.
Symbolisme dans l'art.
Photographie
Symbolism in art.
Photography