Dominique Gracia?, Review of John Holmes’s “Pre-Raphaelitism, Science, and the Arts in The Germ.”

摘要

John Holmes’ “Pre-Raphaelitism, Science, and the Arts in The Germ” takes the four printed issues of The Germ (1850) together as its object of study and sets out to use the journal to draw a clearer picture of the early Pre-Raphaelites’ debate around the role of science vis-à-vis art. Holmes begins by examining some homologies between the language used in The Germ to discuss the artist’s relationship with nature, and that used in early Victorian works of natural history and philosophy of science, such as John Herschel’s A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy (1886).