Kate Flint, Flint Kate

The Victorians and the Visual Imagination

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Richly illustrated study drawing on art, literature and science to explore Victorian attitudes towards sight.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 761g
• ISBN-13: 9780521089524
• ISBN-10: 0521089522
• Artikelnr.: 25043438

Inhaltsangabe

1. The visible and the unseen
2. 'The mote within the eye'
3. Blindness and insight
4. Lifting the veil
5. Under the ice
6. The buried city
7. The role of the art critic
8. Criticism, language and narrative
9. Surface and depth
10. Hallucination and vision
Conclusion: the Victorian horizon.