Aestheticism Deep Formalism and the Emergence of Modernist Aesthetics |
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| Series edited by:
| Burbulla, Julia
Nicolai, Bernd
Tabarasi-Hoffmann, Ana-Stanca
Wucherpfennig, Wolf |
| Author:
| Gal, Michalle |
| Series title: | Natur, Wissenschaft und Die Kuenste / Nature, Science and the Arts / Nature, Science et les Arts Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-3-0343-0527-3 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2015 |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $113.95 |
Book Description:
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This book presents aestheticism of the 19thcentury as a philosophical theory, and as the source of modernist and formalist aesthetics and art of the 20thcentury. It analyzes the definition of art formulated by Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, and James Whistler, and their theory of form and content, art's autonomy and ontology, criticism, and musicality.
This book presents aestheticism of the 19thcentury as a philosophical theory, and as the source of modernist and formalist aesthetics and art of the 20thcentury. It analyzes the definition of art formulated by Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, and James Whistler, and their theory of form and content, art's autonomy and ontology, criticism, and musicality.