Democratising beauty in nineteenth-century Britain :: art and the politics of public life /

Could the self-interested pursuit of beauty actually help to establish the moral and political norms that enable democratic society to flourish? In this book, Lucy Hartley identifies a new language for speaking about beauty, which begins to be articulated from the 1830s in a climate of political ref...

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1. Verfasser: Hartley, Lucy (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 106.
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Zusammenfassung:Could the self-interested pursuit of beauty actually help to establish the moral and political norms that enable democratic society to flourish? In this book, Lucy Hartley identifies a new language for speaking about beauty, which begins to be articulated from the 1830s in a climate of political reform and becomes linked to emerging ideals of equality, liberty, and individuality. Examining British art and art writing by Charles Lock Eastlake, John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Edward Poynter, William Morris, and John Addington Symonds, Hartley traces a debate about what it means to be interested in beauty and whether this preoccupation is necessary to public political life. Drawing together political history, art history, and theories of society, and supplemented by numerous illustrations, Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain offers a fresh interdisciplinary understanding of the relation of art to its publics.
Beschreibung:1 online resource.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1316881563
9781316881569
9781316881934
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9781316875131
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9781107184084
1107184088
9781316635346
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