The chapters address not only "art for art's sake" but also linkages with the realms of science and morality. This book reinterprets Aestheticism as a significant exploration of what it might mean to produce works of art in the modern world. Victorian Aestheticism has often been traded as a frivolous elevation of art above the concerns of political and social life. This volume is the first scholarship study of parallel trends in the visual arts, including the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, James McNeill Whistler, Edward Burne-Jones, Simeon Solomon, and Albert Moore among others. What happened in Victorian painting and sculpture after the Pre-Raphaelites? Aestheticism has been called the next avant-garde movement but attention has centered on literary figures such as Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde.
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