Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Art and the Politics of Public Life

ISBN-13: 9781316635346 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 316 str.

Lucy Hartley

Opis

This book examines nineteenth-century interests in beauty, and considers whether these aesthetic pursuits were necessary to British public life.

Recenzje

'… this is a very interesting and timely book …' Simon Grimble, Notes and Queries

Spis treści

1. 'Of universal or national interest': Charles Eastlake, the Fine Arts Commission, and the Reform of Taste; 2. Reconstituting publics for art: John Ruskin and the Appeal to Enlightened Interest; 3. The pleasures and perils of self-interest: calculating the passions in Walter Pater's essays; 4. Figuring the individual in the collective: the 'art-politics' of Edward Poynter and William Morris; 5. The humanist interest old and new: John Addington Symonds and the nature of liberty.