This book is the first to explore the distinctive role of painting in the debates surrounding the
notion of'art for art's sake'and Aestheticism in Victorian England. In the London circles of …

What happened in Victorian painting and sculpture after the pre-Raphaelites? Aestheticism
has been called the next avant-garde movement but attention has centred on literary figures …

In Victorian Britain, authors produced a luminous and influential body of writings about the
visual arts. From John Ruskin's five-volume celebration of JMW Turner to Walter Pater's …

First published in 1967, Victorian Artists documents the painting of the Victorian period, that
is, the period between the death of Constable and William IV in 1837, the first Post …

There have been two predominant approaches to the study of Victorian art criticism. A few
texts are revered because of the status of the writer, usually John Ruskin; the vast majority …

As the opening quote acknowledges, biography serves art consumption, among other
things. This chapter will explore several overarching functions of late-Victorian biography …

PARALLELING THE RISE OF THE INTERVENTIONIST SPIRIT IN ENGLAND, WHICH
manifested itself in government legislation, political philosophy, and the social and industrial …

" A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at," wrote Oscar
Wilde in The Soul of Man under Socialism," for it leaves out the one country at which …

Abstract From Library Journal Gillett here explores the values inherent in Victorian painting,
showing how they have been downplayed in contrast to those found in the literature and …

This is a fascinating and highly readable account of the vital role the visual arts played in
Great Britain during the Tudor and early Stuart monarchies. David Howarth examines the …