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England and its Aesthetes: Biography and Taste (Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture) - Softcover

Book 12 of 21: Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture

Carrier, David

 
9789057012914: England and its Aesthetes: Biography and Taste (Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 905701291X ISBN 13: 9789057012914
Publisher: Routledge, 1999

Synopsis

First Published in 1999. John Ruskin (1819-1900), Walter Pater (1839-1894), and Adrian Stokes (1902-1972) represent three generations of English aesthetes whose writings have transformed art history and the formations of museums as we know them. They are three great writers in a distinctively English tradition. Concerned with the nature of aesthetic experience, and with the interpretation of visual art, they offer approaches that are dramatically different, in challenging ways, from those of professional art historians. They published autobiographies, explaining the relationship of their conceptions of aesthetic experience to their critical thinking about social questions. With England and Its Aesthetes , David Carrier has assembled the autobiographical sketches of these influential aesthetes. His reading reveals them to be less concerned with art appreciation or an aesthetic approach to everyday life than with issues of identity, politics, and desire.

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john ruskin, walter pater, adrian stokes

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
905701291X
ISBN 13 
9789057012914
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
144