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Art for Art's Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
Art for Art's Sake Aestheticism in Victorian Painting - Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Author: Elizabeth Prettejohn
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300135497
ISBN-10: 0300135491
Publication Date: 2/20/2008
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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