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  1. The Shock of the Real
    Romanticism and Visual Culture, 1760-1860
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan US, New York

    Already in the century before photography's emergence as a mass medium, a diverse popular visual culture had risen to challenge the British literary establishment. The bourgeois fashion for new visual media - from prints and illustrated books to... more

    Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung, Bibliothek
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    Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Universität Potsdam, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Already in the century before photography's emergence as a mass medium, a diverse popular visual culture had risen to challenge the British literary establishment. The bourgeois fashion for new visual media - from prints and illustrated books to theatrical spectacles and panoramas - rejected high. Romantic concepts of original genius and the sublime in favor of mass-produced images and the thrill of realistic effects. In response, the literary elite declared the new visual media an offense to Romantic idealism. 'Simulations of nature,' Coleridge declared, are 'loathsome' and 'disgusting.' The Shock of the Real offers a tour of Romantic visual culture, from the West End stage to the tourist-filled Scottish Highlands, from the panoramas of Leicester Square to the photography studios of Second Empire Paris. But in presenting the relation between word and image in the late Georgian age as a form of culture war, the author also proposes an alternative account of Romantic aesthetic ideology - as a reaction not against the rationalism of the Enlightenment but against the visual media age being born

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781137068095
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    Subjects: Literature; Fine arts; Great Britain; Literature, Modern; Poetry; British literature; Cultural studies
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 273 p)
  2. The Shock of the Real
    Romanticism and Visual Culture, 1760-1860
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan US, New York

    Already in the century before photography's emergence as a mass medium, a diverse popular visual culture had risen to challenge the British literary establishment. The bourgeois fashion for new visual media - from prints and illustrated books to... more

    Universität Potsdam, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Already in the century before photography's emergence as a mass medium, a diverse popular visual culture had risen to challenge the British literary establishment. The bourgeois fashion for new visual media - from prints and illustrated books to theatrical spectacles and panoramas - rejected high. Romantic concepts of original genius and the sublime in favor of mass-produced images and the thrill of realistic effects. In response, the literary elite declared the new visual media an offense to Romantic idealism. 'Simulations of nature,' Coleridge declared, are 'loathsome' and 'disgusting.' The Shock of the Real offers a tour of Romantic visual culture, from the West End stage to the tourist-filled Scottish Highlands, from the panoramas of Leicester Square to the photography studios of Second Empire Paris. But in presenting the relation between word and image in the late Georgian age as a form of culture war, the author also proposes an alternative account of Romantic aesthetic ideology - as a reaction not against the rationalism of the Enlightenment but against the visual media age being born

     

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    Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781137068095
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Literature; Fine arts; Great Britain; Literature, Modern; Poetry; British literature; Cultural studies
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 273 p)
  3. <<The>> shock of the real
    romanticism and visual culture, 1760-1860
    Published: [2001]
    Publisher:  Palgrave, New York, NY

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781137068095
    RVK Categories: HL 1031 ; LH 65780
    Subjects: Art - Grande-Bretagne - 18e siècle; Art - Grande-Bretagne - 19e siècle; Beeldcultuur; Kunst; Romantiek; Romantisme - Dans l'art; Romantisme - Grande-Bretagne; Tentoonstellingen; Kunst; Arts, Modern; Arts, Modern; Romanticism in art
    Other subjects: Geschichte 1760-1860; England
    Scope: 273 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [257]-268