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

"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...

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Main Author: Prettejohn, Elizabeth (Author)
Corporate Author: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, [2007]
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