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What do we mean when we call a work of art "beautiful"? How have artists responded to changing notions of the beautiful? Which works of art have been called beautiful, and why? Fundamental and intriguing questions to artists and art lovers, but ones that are all too often ignored in discussions of art today. Elizabeth Prettejohn argues that we simply cannot afford to ignore these questions. Charting over two hundred years of western art, she illuminates the vital relationship between our changing notions of beauty and specific works of art, from the works of Kauffman to Whistler, Ingres to Rosetti, Cezanne to Pollack. Beautifully illustrated with 100 photographs--60 in full color--Beauty and Art concludes with a challenging question for the future: Why should we care about beauty in the twenty-first century?
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Beauty and Art 1750–2000
Oxford History of Art
Elizabeth Prettejohn is Professor of Modern Art at the University of Plymouth, and was formerly Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery. She is co-author of the exhibition catalogues Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Sir Lawrence AlmaTadema, and Imagining Rome: British Artists
and Rome in the Nineteenth Century; author of The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites, Interpreting Sargent, and Rossetti and His Circle; and editor of After the Pre-Raphaelites: Art and Aestheticism in Victorian England and (with Tim Barringer) Frederic Leighton: Antiquity, Renaissance, Modernity.
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