England and its Aesthetes
Subtitle: Biography and Taste (Critical Voices)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9789057012112
Subjects: Aesthetics; Biography: general; History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Theory of art; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Art Criticism; Esthetics; Art & Art Instruction; Art; England; Criticism; Essays; Art / History / General
First sentence: On very fashionable views of contemporary art, we have reached the end of the era of aesthetic art-the painting and sculpture traditions loved by John Ruskin, Walter Pater and Adrian Stokes are to be replaced by antiaesthetic art.