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The Vulgarization of Art: The Victorians and Aesthetic Democracy
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Univ of Virginia Pr
Publication date May 17, 2015
Pages 133
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780813929323
ISBN-10 0813929326
Dimensions 0.50 by 6 by 8.75 in.
Weight 0.50 lbs.
Original list price $35.00
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In this major reinterpretation of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement, Linda Dowling argues that such classic works of Victorian art writing such as Ruskin's Stones of Venice of Morris's Lectures on Art or Wilde's Critic as Artist become wholly intelligible only within the larger ideological context of the Whig aesthetic tradition.

The Vulgarization of Art explores the tragic consequences for the Aesthetic Movement when a repressed and irresolvable conflict between Shaftesbury's assumption of "aristocratic soul" and the Victorian ideal of "aesthetic democracy" repeatedly shatters the hopes of such writers as Ruskin, Morris, Pater, and Wilde for social transformation through the aesthetic sense.



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from Univ of Virginia Pr (February 1, 1996)
9780813916347 | details & prices | 133 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 0.75 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $59.50
About: In this major reinterpretation of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement, Linda Dowling argues that such classic works of Victorian art writing such as Ruskin's Stones of Venice of Morris's Lectures on Art or Wilde's Critic as Artist become wholly intelligible only within the larger ideological context of the Whig aesthetic tradition.
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from Univ of Virginia Pr (May 17, 2015)
9780813929323 | details & prices | 133 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 0.50 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $35.00
About: In this major reinterpretation of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement, Linda Dowling argues that such classic works of Victorian art writing such as Ruskin's Stones of Venice of Morris's Lectures on Art or Wilde's Critic as Artist become wholly intelligible only within the larger ideological context of the Whig aesthetic tradition.

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