Art for Art's Sake
Aestheticism in Victorian Painting (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
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Publication
2008-02-28 - Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press
Language
English
Word Count
80,000 words, Guess
Page Count
320 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- ISBN-100300135491
- ISBN-139780300135497
- LibraryThing8015231
- Goodreads6573229
- Library of Congress Control Number2007025314
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- OCLC Control Number145388033
- Better World Books9780300135497
- Open LibraryOL10319610M
Classifications
- LCCN6767.5.A3
- LCCND467.5.A3 P74 2007
Description
"In the London circles of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Frederic Leighton, the notion of "art for art's sake" became a shared concern: if art is not created for the sake of preaching a moral lesson, or supporting a political cause, or making a fortune, or any other objective, what might art be? Art historian Elizabeth Prettejohn traces the emergence of the debates over this issue in the 1860s and 1870s, focusing especially on the Rossetti, Whistler, Leighton, and other protagonists of the Aesthetic Movement and their paintings - some of the most haunting and memorable images in modern art. The English painters' search for the formula to best express the idea of "art for art's sake" was a unified and powerful artistic undertaking, Prettejohn demonstrates, and the Aesthetic Movement made important contributions to the history of modern art."--Jacket.
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