Better Than the Real Thing: Processed Reality in Victorian Art and Fiction

This paper investigates the paradoxical and composite nature of realist photography and fiction. In the 1850s, strategies of aggregation were part of the regular compositional practice of Victorian painters, from the Pre-Raphaelite William Holman Hunt to William Powell Frith. The artistic re-composi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Béatrice Laurent
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2019-06-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
Subjects:
art
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cve/5102

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