Prettejohn,Elizabeth.

Beauty and art 1750-2000: Elizabeth Prettejohn. - 1st ed. - Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. - 224 pic. 24. - Oxford history of art. .

Includes index and illustrations.

Chapter 1: Eighteenth-century Germany: Winckelmann and Kant. Chapter 2: Nineteenth-century France: From Staël to Baudelaire. Chapter 3 :Victorian England: Ruskin, Swinburne, Pater; Chapter 4: Modernism: Fry and Greenberg.

What do we mean when we call a work of art `beautiful`? How do perceptions of beauty change with the passage of time? Elizabeth Prettejohn explores these crucial questions, showing the vital relationship between our changing notions of beauty and specific works of art. She charts the story of western art, from eighteenth-century Germany to the late 20th century, from Kauffman to Whistler, Ingres to Rossetti, C--eacute--;zanne to Jackson Pollock. - ;What do we mean when we call a work of art `beautiful`? How have artists responded to changing notions of the beautiful?

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ART--General
Aesthetics.
Art--Philosophy

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