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

Informationen zum Autor Lucy Hartley is Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture (Cambridge, 2001), and essays on a wide range of subjects including intellectual history and art history, John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville, and nineteenth-century aesthetic theories. She is the editor of The History of British Women's Writing, 1830–1880 (2018). Klappentext This book examines nineteenth-century interests in beauty, and considers whether these aesthetic pursuits were necessary to British public life. Zusammenfassung 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 ideals of equality! liberty and individuality. Including numerous illustrations! the volume offers a fresh interdisciplinary understanding of art's relation to its public. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Lucy Hartley, Lucy (University of Michigan Hartley, Hartley Lucy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781107184084
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18408-4
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture; Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Kunstgeschichte, Englisch, 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Literaturwissenschaft: 1800 bis 1900, History of Ideas, English, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Art, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900