Aestheticism Flashcards
1
Q
Define aestheticism in the 19th century.
A
Proponents saw the doctrine or disposition that regards beauty as an end in itself and attempts to preserve the arts from subordination to moral, didactic, or political purposes.
2
Q
What was the Aesthetic Movement?
A
It’s as a further phase of Romanticism in reactions against philistine bourgeois values of practical efficiency and morality.
3
Q
Wilde and other devotees of pure beauty were sometimes known as…
A
Aesthetes
