After the Pre-Raphaelites : art and aestheticism in Victorian England /

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Other Authors: Prettejohn, Elizabeth
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 1999.
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ISBN:0813527503 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813527511 (paper : alk. paper)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Elizabeth Prettejohn
  • Art
  • 1. Rossetti and the scandal of art for art's sake in the early 1860s / Alastair Grieve
  • 2. Walter Pater and aesthetic painting / Elizabeth Prettejohn
  • 3. Whistler, Swinburne and art for art's sake / Robin Spencer
  • 4. The 'Artists' have come out and the 'British' remain: the Whistler faction at the Society of British Artists / Anne Koval
  • Science
  • 5. Nature and abstraction in the aesthetic development of Albert Moore / Robyn Asleson
  • 6. Poynter and the arty / Caroline Arscott
  • 7. Edward Burne-Jones's The Mirror of Venus: surface and subjectivity in the art criticism of the 1870s / Kate Flint
  • Morality
  • 8. Versions of the Annunciation: Wilde's Aestheticism and the message of beauty / Colin Cruise
  • 9. The image in the middle: John Addington Symonds and homoerotic art criticism / Whitney Davis
  • 10. The 'British Matron' and the body beautiful: the nude debate of 1885 / Alison Smith
  • 11. Physical culture: the male nude and sculpture in late Victorian Britain / Michael Hatt.