Beauty and Art

1750-2000

Elizabeth Prettejohn

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Oxford University Press
01 October 2005

Art & Architecture; Theory of art; History of Art & Design Styles; Art & design styles: Pre-Raphaelite art; Art & design styles: Art Nouveau; Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960; Art & design styles: from c 1960

Series: Oxford History of Art

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. 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 Rossetti, Cézanne to Jackson Pollock, and concludes with a challenging question for the future: why should we care about beauty in the twenty-first century?

By: Elizabeth Prettejohn
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 239mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780192801609
ISBN 10: 0192801600
Series: Oxford History of Art
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 October 2005
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elizabeth Prettejohn is a Professor of Modern Art at the University of Plymouth.