Article: Ron Broglio, Technologies of the Picturesque: British Art, Poetry, and Instruments 1750-1830.(Book review)

Ron Broglio, Technologies of the Picturesque: British Art, Poetry, and Instruments 1750-1830

(Bucknell Univ. Pr. 2008) 236 + $50.00

Ron Broglio's Technologies of the Picturesque examines the effects of Romantic-era technology and aesthetics on representations of the natural world, drawing particular attention to the epistemological and ontological problems caused by transformations of three-dimensional space into a series of intelligible signs on flat surfaces. The book thus foregrounds a critique not only of the picturesque habit of knowing and feeling "through the eyes" but also of prevailing notions of Romantic subjectivity that privilege interiority ...

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