Besides offering a compensation for the perception of beauty for Acton as an
aesthete, Peking also afforded him an opportunity to achieve a measure of spiritual transcendence.
The section is entitled "Total Waugh: Dandies and Queer
Aesthetes on the Home Front." The pun is misleading, since Deer focuses on Ambrose Silk in Put Out More Flags and Basil Seal Rides Again, Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited, and Ludovic and Ivor Claire in Sword of Honour.
They drew a good deal of mockery as
aesthetes, socialists and high-minded do-gooders:
CHARLES Duff will tomorrow bring to life the figure of Plas Newydd's Honourable Steven Tennant, poet, artist, novelist and
aesthete and lover of acclaimed war poet, Siegfrid Sassoon.
On the 125th anniversary of its foundation, Bulgari dedicates a watch to this multicultural trailblazer, businessman and
aesthete: a watch as extraordinary as him.
Thin sections of the plates of the Pennsylvanian chiton Euleptochiton spatulatus (Hoare, Sturgeon and Hoare 1972) show the pattern and sizes of the
aesthete canals.
In this book Grant shows Garvey was a man of contradictions: a self-educated, poetry-writing
aesthete and unabashed propagandist, an admirer of Lenin, and a dandy given to elaborate public displays.
Gelder, conflating the
aesthete and the dandy, sees an analogy with vampires: "The vampire is itself, of course, a contemplative creature ...
Sir William Macarthur: The Colonial Grandee, Thomas Lang: The Million-plant Man, Daniel Bunce: The Man on the Edge, William Guilfoyle: The Colonial
Aesthete, Josiah Mitchell: The Man of the ,Soil and William Ferguson; The Man Who Couldn't See.
The latter is the case, for example, when Maltz characterizes a "missionary
aesthete" as "a lover of beauty and a social reformer concerned to improve the material environment of the poor" (27).