Aestheticism Master Dictionary

Author: Lan Gong
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: This book will introduce you to one of the most famous groups of "saints of beauty" in art history. They depicted fatal beauties and the soul's radiance unrelated to reality. From them, "beauty" finally gained an independent value, "art for art's sake" became a chosen posture and stance. "Art for art's sake" is the ultimate proposition about the essence of art, born in the turbulent Europe of the 19th century. Since then, it has provided artists of the time and the future with a chosen, highly extreme posture and stance, and has contributed many "fatal beauties" and exquisite images to the history of modern and contemporary art. In this famous "aesthetic movement," not only was the independent value of "beauty" established, which had a decisive influence on the development of 20th-century art, but more importantly, a group of masters devoted to classical beauty emerged. Among them are those who depicted the beauty of divinity, such as Burne-Jones, and so on.