TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art\, 1845-1945 brings together more than 150 Picto rialist photographs from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries \, tracing the movement's progression from its earliest influences to its seminal effect on photographic Modernism. One of the first truly internatio nal artistic movements\, Pictorialism was simultaneously a movement\, a ph ilosophy\, an aesthetic and a style that arose out of a desire to elevate photography to an art form equal to painting\, drawing and watercolour. Th e exhibition includes works by Julia Margaret Cameron\, Alvin Langdon Cobu rn\, Robert Demachy\, Peter Henry Emerson\, Gertrude Ksebier\, Heinrich Ch n\, Edward Steichen\, Alfred Stieglitz and John Vanderpant.
John O'B rian is a Professor of Art History at the University of British Columbia. He has published extensively on modern art history\, theory and criticism\ , and has lectured widely across the United States and Canada\, and in Eur ope\, Israel\, Mexico\, Australia\, China and India. In 1994\, he co-founde d the Vancouver Art Forum Society\, which until 2002 published Collapse\, a journal of which he was an editor. His current research interests focus o n national landscape narratives\, especially as they are played out in Nor th America\, and on visual responses in art and photography to nuclear thr eat and destruction since 1945.
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