Art for art's sake : aestheticism in Victorian painting /

"In the London circles of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Frederic Leighton, the notion of "art for art's sake" became a shared concern: if art is not created for the sake of preaching a moral lesson, or supporting a political cause, or making a fortune, or any other objective, what m...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Prettejohn, Elizabeth.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, c2007.
Subjects:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!