Illusions of Reality: Naturalist Painting, Photography, Theatre and Cinema, 1875-1918

by Gabriel P. Weisberg, Willa Silverman, David Jackson, et al.

Capturing realistic images on canvas has been a staple aspiration of western art since the Renaissance development of scientific perspective. At the end of the nineteenth century, however, animated by the invention of photography and cinema, artists began attempting not only to paint realistically but also to create images that projected the ethical content of the world around them. Illusions of Reality: Naturalist Painting, Photography and Cinema,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9061539412
• ISBN13: 9789061539414
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Mercatorfonds/Van Gogh Museum
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 3.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 11.8" x 9.8"