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Hornby, Louise Emily Jane.

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Photographic modernism: The pursuit of objectivity.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Photographic modernism: The pursuit of objectivity./
Author:	Hornby, Louise Emily Jane.
Description:	270 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Ann Banfield.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-08A.
Subject:	Art History. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3275450
ISBN:	9780549167679

Photographic modernism: The pursuit of objectivity.
Hornby, Louise Emily Jane.

Photographic modernism: The pursuit of objectivity. - 270 p.

Adviser: Ann Banfield.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2007.

This dissertation addresses the ways in which literary modernism is underwritten by the pursuit of objective forms of visual knowledge, and turns to the technology and forms of photography to radically revise notions of visual epistemology in the early twentieth-century. In literary studies, photography has been associated primarily with nineteenth century realism rather than modernist representation. This technological bias is occasioned, on the one hand, by modernism's association with new strategies of representing subjectivity; and, on the other hand, by a determinism that positions cinema as the dominant scopic regime of modernism. By comparing a corpus of novels and photographs and theorizing modernism as an interdisciplinary phenomenon, the dissertation works against such orthodoxies, and recuperates the objective discourses and scientific techniques of photography within modernism.

ISBN: 9780549167679Subjects--Topical Terms:

635474
Art History.

Photographic modernism: The pursuit of objectivity.
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520 $a Authors such as Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Marcel Proust and Gertrude Stein---writers who have been repeatedly linked to the representation of subjectivity---were poised to recuperate and revitalize notions of objectivity and visual knowledge without resorting to a naive realism. Their turn to new notions of objectivity in modernism is attended by a turn toward the discourses and technology of photography, which disrupts the bond between subjectivity and vision, and alters the terms of visual epistemology. The contradictory yet defining conditions of photography---its singularity and its multiplicity---situate photography at the center of modernism's vexed relationship to the image, and provide the parameters for a historically grounded understanding of modernist objectivity.
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