Nature's truth: photography, painting, and science in Victorian Britain

Abstract

"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.

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.