| Description |
xii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Introduction / Elizabeth Prettejohn -- Art. 1. Rossetti and the scandal of art for art's sake in the early 1860s / Alastair Grieve. 2. Walter Pater and aesthetic painting / Elizabeth Prettejohn. 3. Whistler, Swinburne and art for art's sake / Robin Spencer. 4. The 'Artists' have come out and the 'British' remain: the Whistler faction at the Society of British Artists / Anne Koval -- Science. 5. Nature and abstraction in the aesthetic development of Albert Moore / Robyn Asleson. 6. Poynter and the arty / Caroline Arscott. 7. Edward Burne-Jones's The Mirror of Venus: surface and subjectivity in the art criticism of the 1870s / Kate Flint -- Morality. 8. Versions of the Annunciation: Wilde's Aestheticism and the message of beauty / Colin Cruise. 9. The image in the middle: John Addington Symonds and homoerotic art criticism / Whitney Davis. 10. The 'British Matron' and the body beautiful: the nude debate of 1885 / Alison Smith |
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11. Physical culture: the male nude and sculpture in late Victorian Britain / Michael Hatt |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Art, British -- 19th century.
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Aesthetic movement (Art)
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Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Great Britain.
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Art for art's sake (Movement)
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Art, English -- 19th century.
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| Author |
Prettejohn, Elizabeth.
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| LC no. |
99023158 |
| ISBN |
0813527503 cloth alkaline paper |
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0813527511 paper alkaline paper |
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