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The Idea of Italy: Photography and the British Imagination, 1840-1900

The Idea of Italy: Photography and the British Imagination, 1840-1900

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The Idea of Italy: Photography and the British Imagination, 1840-1900

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Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2022.

288 pp. Well Illustrated (chiefly col.). 29 x 23 cm. LC 2021-42905 In English. Hardcover.

ISBN 9780300263831

This book examines the ways in which the new medium of photography influenced the British experience, appreciation, and perception of Italy in the nineteenth century. Setting photography within a long history of image making—beginning with the eighteenth-century Grand Tour and transformed by the inventions of William Henry Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre—this beautifully illustrated book features many previously unpublished images alongside the work of well-known photographers. The sixteen essays in this volume explore photography as a vehicle for visual translation and cultural exchange.

Subject Headings: Eastern and Western European Art ; Western Art -- Great Britain -- 1800-1900 -- Photography --

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