Providing 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 social change and new technologies. Contributing scholars
from the fields of history, art, literature and the history of
science investigate the role of visual representation and the
dominance of the image by looking at changing ideas expressed in
representations of science, technology, politics, and culture in
advertising, art, periodicals, and novels. They investigate how,
during the period, new emphasis was placed on the visual with
emerging forms of mass communication"photography, lithography,
newspapers, advertising, and cinema"while older forms as varied as
poetry, the novel, painting, interior decoration, and architecture
became transformed. The volume includes investigations into new
innovations and scientific development such as the steam engine,
transportation and engineering, the microscope, "spirit
photography," and the orrery, as well as how this new technology is
reproduced in illustrated periodicals. The essays also look at more
traditional forms of creative expression to show that the same
concerns and anxieties about science, technology and the changing
perceptions of the natural world can be seen in the art of Armand
Guillaumin, Auguste Rodin, Gustave Caillebotte, and Camille
Pissarro, in colonial nineteenth-century novels, in design manuals,
in museums, and in the decorations of domestic interior spaces.
Visions of the Industrial Age, 1830-1914 offers a thorough
exploration of both the nature of modernity, and the nature of the
visual.
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