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Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain - Art and the Politics of Public Life (Paperback)
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Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain - Art and the Politics of Public Life (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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Could the self-interested pursuit of beauty actually help to
establish the moral and political norms that enable democratic
society to flourish? In this book, Lucy Hartley identifies a new
language for speaking about beauty, which begins to be articulated
from the 1830s in a climate of political reform and becomes linked
to emerging ideals of equality, liberty, and individuality.
Examining British art and art writing by Charles Lock Eastlake,
John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Edward Poynter, William Morris, and John
Addington Symonds, Hartley traces a debate about what it means to
be interested in beauty and whether this preoccupation is necessary
to public political life. Drawing together political history, art
history, and theories of society, and supplemented by numerous
illustrations, Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain
offers a fresh interdisciplinary understanding of the relation of
art to its publics.
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