Title: Victorian photography, painting, and poetry
First published: 1995
Description: 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.
Subjects: Arts, British, Arts, Victorian, British Arts, Victorian Arts, Visual perception, Arts, great britain, Arts victoriens, Arts britanniques, Perception visuelle, Druckwerk, Literatur, Lyrik, Malerei, Fotografie, Poetik, Präraffaeliten, Schilderkunst, Letterkunde, Victoriaanse tijd, Visuele waarneming, English Arts, Esthétique, Poésie anglaise, Art, Art victorien, Peinture victorienne, Littérature et photographie, Littérature anglaise, Histoire et critique, Perception visuelle dans la littérature
Places: Great Britain
LC classification: NX543 .S64 1995