Democratising beauty in nineteenth-century Britain : art and the politics of public life / Lucy Hartley.
Published / Created:
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Physical Description:
xii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-286) and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 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.
Subject Terms:
Art -- Historiography. | Historiography -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. | Art and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. | Civil society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. | Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. | LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. | Art and society. | Art -- Historiography. | Civil society. | Historiography. | Intellectual life. | Great Britain.