Art for Art's Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting - The Association of Human Rights Institutes series - Elizabeth Prettejohn - Books - Yale University Press - 9780300135497 - February 1, 2008
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Art for Art's Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting - The Association of Human Rights Institutes series

Elizabeth Prettejohn

Art for Art's Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting - The Association of Human Rights Institutes series

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.


320 pages, 85 b&w illustrations and 40 colour images

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released February 1, 2008
Original release date 2007
ISBN13 9780300135497
Publishers Yale University Press
Pages 320
Dimensions 201 × 264 × 30 mm   ·   1.59 kg
Language English  

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