The vulgarization of art

Linda C. Dowling

earliest edition we have, 1996 University Press of Virginia, 1996 133 pages

Victorian literature and culture series

In this major reinterpretation of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement, Linda Dowling argues that such classic works of Victorian art writing as Ruskin's Stones of Venice or 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. Tracing the genealogy of Victorian Aestheticism back to the first great crisis of the Whig po...

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The Vulgarization of Art paperback · 2015 · University of Virginia Press · 164 pages · 9780813929323
Vulgarization of Art edition · 2012 · University of Virginia Press · 9780813923956
The vulgarization of art edition · 1996 · University Press of Virginia · 133 pages

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