The Vulgarization of Art: The Victorians and Aesthetic Democracy

by Linda Dowling

Book Overview

In this major reinterpretation of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement, Linda Dowling argues that such classic works of Victorian art writing such as Ruskin's Stones of Venice of Morris's Lectures on Art or Wilde's Critic as Artist become wholly intelligible only within the larger ideological context of the Whig aesthetic tradition.

The Vulgarization of Art explores the tragic consequences for the Aesthetic Movement when a repressed and irresolvable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813929326
• ISBN13: 9780813929323
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher