TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Prettejohn,Elizabeth.
TI  - Beauty and art 1750-2000
SN  - 0192801600
U1  - 701.170903 
PY  - 2005///.
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press, 
KW  - ART
KW  - General
KW  -  Aesthetics
KW  - Art
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - 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
N2  - 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?
ER  -