| Author |
Willis, Martin |
| Year |
2011 |
| Publisher |
London: Pickering & Chatto |
| Number of pages |
320 |
| Keywords |
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Abstract
Publisher's Note (2012):
Willis explores the role of vision and the culture of pbservation in Victorian and
modernist ways of seeing. He charts the characterization of vision through four organising
principles - small, large, past and future - to survey Victorian conceptions of what
vision was. He then explores how this Victorian vision influenced twentieth-century
ways of seeing, when anxieties over visual 'truth' became entwined with modernist
rejections of objectivity.
