Jason Edwards
Alfred Gilbert's Aestheticism: Gilbert Amongst Whistler, Wilde, Leighton, Pater and Burne-Jones
Aldershot, UK:
Ashgate,
2005.
282 pp.; 97 b/w ills.
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$99.95
(0754608611)
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December 10, 2008
Elizabeth Prettejohn
Art for Art's Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting
New Haven:
Yale University Press in association with Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art,
2007.
320 pp.; 40 color ills.; 85 b/w ills.
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$65.00
(9780300135497)
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Both Jason Edwards’s Alfred Gilbert’s Aestheticism: Gilbert Amongst Whistler, Wilde, Leighton, Pater and Burne-Jones and Elizabeth Prettejohn’s Art for Art’s Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting exemplify newer methodological approaches in Victorian art, a blend of the intertextual and historical, and each superbly succeeds in diverse ways. Edwards’s book challenges preexisting assumptions that Aestheticism did not embrace the realm of sculpture and reinscribes the question dramatically. Past scholars have focused on poetry and novels, popular culture,...