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Aestheticism |
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AestheticismLate 19th-century European arts movement that centred on the doctrine that art exists for the sake of its beauty alone. It began in reaction to prevailing utilitarian social philosophies and to the perceived ugliness and philistinism of the industrial age. Its philosophical foundations were laid by Immanuel Kant, who proposed that aesthetic standards could be separated from morality, utility, or pleasure. James McNeill Whistler, Oscar Wilde, and Stéphane Mallarmé raised the movement's ideal of the cultivation of refined sensibility to perhaps its highest point. Aestheticism had affinities with French Symbolism and was a precursor of Art Nouveau. |
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| Both minimalist and extremist, they were
determined to create an aesthetic movement where art was all consuming
and mediocre wasn't an option. " Because everybody
was "screaming" during the black aesthetic movement, which of
course was a very important time for the shaping of your own art, it
just coincided. Kermode has long been fascinated by
the aesthetic movement of the fin de siecle before last, as is apparent
in the first essay here, "Poet and Dancer before Diaghilev,"
and a later study of the development of Botticelli's reputation;
both of them have an oblique relation to Yeats, who is one of
Kermode's poetic points of reference. |
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