The idea of Italy

• Titel: The idea of Italy
• Titelzusatz: photography and the British imagination, 1840-1900
• Mitwirkende: Pelizzari, Maria Antonella [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Wilcox, Scott [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Maria Antonella Pelizzari, Scott Wilcox
• Verlagsort: New Haven
• Verlag: Yale Center for British Art
• E-Jahr: 2022
• Jahr: [2022]
• Umfang: 287 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-300-26383-1
• Schlagwörter: (g)Großbritannien / (s)Reisefotografie / (s)Italien <Motiv> / (z)Geschichte 1840-1900
• Schlagwörter: (g)Großbritannien / (s)Italienbild / (s)Fotografie / (z)Geschichte 1840-1900
• Dokumenttyp: Ausstellungskatalog
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: AP 95540
• RVK-Notation: AP 99030
• Sach-SW: PHOTOGRAPHY / History
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901)
• K10plus-PPN: 1769611460

Abstract

The legacy of the Grand Tour -- Tracing early encounters -- The photograph as narrative and souvenir -- Documenting and disseminating art -- Becoming a nation -- Endings and beginnings.

Abstract

"The Idea of Italy: Photography and the British Imagination, 1840-1900, examines the ways in which the new medium of photography influenced the British experience, appreciation, and perception of Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Full-size plates-including many previously unpublished images-feature the work of both famous and little-known photographers, including Robert Macpherson, Calvert Richard Jones, George Wilson Bridges, Julia Margaret Cameron, Lady Anne Brassey, and James Craig Annan. Setting photography within a long history of image making that begins with the eighteenth-century Grand Tour, transformed by the inventions of William Henry Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre, the sixteen essays in this volume explore photography as a vehicle for visual translation and cultural exchange. Maria Antonella Pelizzari is a professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Scott Wilcox is the former deputy director for collections of the Yale Center for British Art"--