Art for Art's Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Art for Art's Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Book

Explores the distinctive role of painting in the debates surrounding the notion of 'art for art's sake' and Aestheticism in Victorian England. This book traces the emergence of the debates in 1860s and their development into 1870s focusing on the principal protagonists of the Aesthetic Movement and their paintings.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    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...

  • 0300135491
  • 9780300135497
  • E Prettejohn
  • 23 October 2007
  • Yale University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 320
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