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• Blue and white to black and white-- the cult of Japan-- a dissonance in gold and silver-- artists and studios-- Whistler versus Ruskin - the watershed and the aftermath-- satire and aestheticism-- Oscar Wilde in America-- E.W. Godwin - "First of the Aesthetes"-- the French connection - fin de siecle-- the sleeping woman awakes-- the triumph and tragedy of the aesthetic movement.
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The Aesthetic Movement, that swept England in the latter half of the 19th-century touched every aspect of the fine and decorative arts. The products of this movement are characterized by a simplicity of line, and a richness of surface and materials, but its coherence lies in the attitude of the mind of its exponents. Believing beauty should permeate every sphere of life, the aesthetes cry was "art for art's sake", and it is this lack of all moral and political overtones that separates the Aesthetic Movement from others of the 19th-century. This book traces the influences of the movement on the many manufacturers and designers working in Britain, Europe and the USA, discussing the philosophy of the movement alongside its style.
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The Arthurian revival was a Victorian phenomenon, built upon new, moralistic interpretations of medieval literature and a didactic reevaluation of chivalry. Mancoff interprets the visual representations of Arthurian imagery as an expression of national sentiment and idealism, exploring form, conten.
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This book marks the retirement of Robert Wark as Curator of the Huntington Art Collections and reflects his wide interest in the field of British art. A tribute by John Hayes to Wark's thirty-five years of curatorship opens the volume, followed by essays contributed by Shelley Bennett, David Bindman, Martin Butlin, Patricia Crown, Robert Essick, Ronald Paulson, Jules Prown, Graham Reynolds, and Duncan Robinson. Topics include the political and aesthetic in Hogarth's art, Blake's illustrations to Paradise Lost, portrait miniatures, British book illustration, Reynold's portrait of Baretti, Cotes double portrait of the Crathornes, the French Revolution in English graphic art of the 1790s, cosmic art and the rococo. Over one hundred black and white and colour illustrations of items from leading British and American collections accompany the essays.
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• v. 2. Q-Z and at the New English Art Club, 1888-1917.

Contains a complete list of exhibitors at the Suffolk Street Galleries of the Royal Society of British Artists for the period 1824-1893 as well as a list of works exhibited at the English Art Club from 1888 to 1917. The English Art Club was a society that exhibited at the Suffolk Street Galleries.
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