Visions of the Industrial Age, 1830-1914: Modernity and the Anxiety of Representation in Europe

ISBN-13: 9780754664888 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 400 str.

Woodson-Boulton, Amy

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Offering a comprehensive interdisciplinary assessment, and with a particular focus on expressions of tension and anxiety about modernity, this collection examines visual culture in nineteenth-century Europe as it attempted to redefine itself in the face of

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Contents: Preface; Part I Envisioning the Industrial: The happy marriage of steam and engine produces beautiful daughters and bloody monsters: descriptions of locomotives as living creatures in modernist culture, 1875-1935, Minsoo Kang; Adorning the landscape: images of transportation in 19th-century France, Jane E. Boyd; Armand Guillaumin: the industrial impressionist, James H. Rubin. Part II Photographing the (Un)real: Picturing the supernatural: spirit photography, radiant matter, and the spectacular science of Sir William Crookes, Courtenay Raia-Grean; Finding Florence in Birmingham: hybridity and the photomechanical image in the 1890s, Gerry Beegan; Auguste Rodin and the 'scientific image': the sublime copy versus the photograph, Natasha Ruiz-Gómez. Part III Framing the Environment: A window onto nature: visual language, aesthetic ideology, and the art of social transformation, Amy Woodson-Boulton; From will to wallpaper: imaging and imagining the natural in the domestic interiors of the art nouveau, Amy Catania Kulper; Pisarro's crowds: cityscape as wish image, Katherine Hover-Smoot. Part IV Depicting the Scientific: Victorian stain glass as memorial: an image of George Boole, Kevin Lambert; 'Some wonders of the microscope' and other tales of marvel: the popularization of science in late Victorian Britain, Gabriel K. Wolfenstein; Orreries: mechanical and verbal, Hiroko Washizu. Part V Exposing the Modern: Stripped: Gustave Caillebotte and the carcass of modern life, Paula Young Lee; Puff marries advertising: commercialization of culture in Jean-Jacques Grandville's Un Autre Monde (1844), Haejeong Hazel Hahn; 'Awful, moony light': the visual and the colonial other in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, Carla Spivack; Bibliography; Index.