Beauty and art 1750-2000 / Elizabeth Prettejohn.
Beauty and art 1750-2000 / Elizabeth Prettejohn.
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Publisher
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Date
2005.
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N701.1709/2
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English
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Physical content
224 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. Eighteenth-century Germany : Winckelmann and Kant -- Ch. 2. Nineteenth-century France : from Stael to Baudelaire -- Ch. 3. Victorian England : Ruskin, Swinburne, Pater -- Ch. 4. Modernism : Fry and Greenberg.
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Publisher
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
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England
Date Published
2005.
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Summary
"Charting over two hundred years of western art, Elizabeth Prettejohn illuminates the vital relationship between our changing notions of beauty and specific works of art, from the works of Kauffman to Whistler, Ingres to Rossetti, Cezanne to Jackson Pollock, and concludes with a challenging question for the future: why should we care about beauty i...
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Beauty and art 1750-2000 / Elizabeth Prettejohn.
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Beauty & art.
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Oxford history of art.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N701.1709/2
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74VK6kZrpjQd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK6kZrpjQd
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ISBN
0192801600 (alk. paper)
9780192801609 (alk. paper)
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701.170903
MMS ID
991020986279702626
