Beauty and art, 1750-2000 / Elizabeth Prettejohn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prettejohn, Elizabeth.

Series:

Oxford history of art.

Oxford history of art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Beauty & art

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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? Which works of art have be

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 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; Afterword; Notes; Further Reading; List of Illustrations; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-213) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-76124-5

0-19-151651-1

1-4294-6869-6

OCLC:

476259046