{"product_id":"face-value-frank-campbell-9780994604323","title":"Face Value: The Assassination of Portrait Painting by Photography, 1850-1870","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Face Value\" takes a revolutionary new approach to art history, exposing complex networks of colonial artists and revealing important lost paintings of Richard Noble.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a Dickensian tale of humble beginnings, great expectations, and migration to the ends of the earth, where instant success in Australia gave way rapidly to personal tragedy and ignominious decline. The brutal struggle between painting and photography reduced many artists to penury. Gentleman painters were no match for the ruthless new entrepreneurs of the camera.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFailed portrait painter Edwin Dalton dominated Sydney photography in the mid-19th century. His corrupt career personifies the technological war. Dalton returned with his mistress to London as a wealthy man.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArt history failed Richard Noble, and he's not alone. The entire milieu of mid-19th century colonial art has been neglected. Women artists have had their roles minimised or rendered invisible. Dozens of notable artists remain in limbo, known only from a few fragmentary and often inaccurate records. Only by excavating genealogies, shipping lists, newspapers, censuses, church records and the like can we uncover the sociological bedrock that helps tell their full stories. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis long-overdue research will rewrite gallery and museum catalogues in Australia and Britain, and finally deliver some justice to our lost artists. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frank Campbell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0994604327\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780994604323\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Owen Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/16\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d","brand":"Frank Campbell","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47452589883647,"sku":"9780994604323","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_85e1c1bd-9c1a-4bce-830e-c83094467dc8.jpg?v=1761929321","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/face-value-frank-campbell-9780994604323","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}