{"product_id":"9780813916347-the-vulgarization-of-art-the-victorians-and-aesthetic-democracy-victorian-literature-and-culture-series","title":"The Vulgarization of Art: The Victorians and Aesthetic Democracy (Victorian Literature and Culture Series","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Victorians and Aesthetic Democracy\u003cbr\u003eIn this major reinterpretation of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement, Linda Dowling argues that such classic works of Victorian art writing such as Ruskin's \u003cem\u003eStones of Venice of Morris's Lectures on Art\u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem\u003eWilde's Critic as Artist\u003c\/em\u003e become wholly intelligible only within the larger ideological context of the Whig aesthetic tradition.\u003cbr\u003eIn this major reinterpretation of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement, Linda Dowling argues that such classic works of Victorian art writing such as Ruskin's \u003cem\u003eStones of Venice of Morris's Lectures on Art\u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem\u003eWilde's Critic as Artist\u003c\/em\u003e become wholly intelligible only within the larger ideological context of the Whig aesthetic tradition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Vulgarization of Art\u003c\/em\u003e explores the tragic consequences for the Aesthetic Movement when a repressed and irresolvable conflict between Shaftesbury's assumption of \"\"aristocratic soul\"\" and the Victorian ideal of \"\"aesthetic democracy\"\" repeatedly shatters the hopes of such writers as Ruskin, Morris, Pater, and Wilde for social transformation through the aesthetic sense.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56844524061046,"sku":"9780813916347","price":53.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34361247.jpg?v=1765453716","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780813916347-the-vulgarization-of-art-the-victorians-and-aesthetic-democracy-victorian-literature-and-culture-series","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}