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AESTHETICISM:

·         It was a European Phenomenon.

·         Started in the Latter half of the 19^th century.

·         Head quarters at France.

·         It started due to the opposition of the dominance of scientific thinking and middle class’ indifference to accept arts for its own sake.

·         The middle class of the time wanted art to teach moral values.

·         “L’art pour L’ art “ – “Art for Art’s sake” Motto of the movement.

·         First roots of aestheticism found in the work of Imanuel Kant’s Critique of Judgement (1790)

·         Pure aesthetics -  disinterested contemplation

·         “Art is useless “ commented by Theophile Gautier in his work Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835)

·         Aestheticism developed by Baudelaire in France

·         In English it was introduced by Walter Pater – Emphasised high artifice and stylistic subtelity.

·         Baudelaire was greatly influenced by Edgar Allen Poe.

·         “The Poetic Principle” (1850) written by Edgar Allen Poe.

·         Flaubert, Mallarme took up Poe’s views.

·         Artist representing a priest who renounces the practical concerns of ordinary existence in the service of “the Religion of Beauty” – Flaubert.

·         The Renaissance (1873) by Walter Pater.

·         Works:

Ø  “Artistic adventure” (1945) by William Gaunt.

Ø  “Romantic Image” (1957) by Franc

Ø  “From Gautier to Elliot” (1960) by Enid Starkie.

Ø  “Aestheticism” (1969) R.V. Johnson.

Ø  “The Aesthetes: A Sourcebook (1979) by Ian Small.

Ø  Strangeness and Beauty: The Anthology of Aesthetic criticism (1840-1960) by Warner and Graham Hogh.

Ø  Aesthetic and Decadence: A Selective Anotable Bibliography (1977) by Linda C. Dowling.