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AESTHETICISM

The Aesthetic Movement, significantly influenced by Walter Pater, sought to emphasize art for art's sake and rejected conventional didactic and moralistic purposes in literature and art.

AESTHETICISM

AESTHETICISM

Features

Artists
Were seen as the transcribers of their percepition/sense of the world

Oscar Wilde

Was, in his twenties, an exemplary Aesthete

Journal
"The Yellow Book"

Was a leading British journal of the 1890s which was associated with Aestheticism,

Art
Not didactic
Not moralised
Not referred to life
Theory
Life as a "work of art"

Life should be lived in the spirit of art

Sense of the "attreactive" and the "gracious"

Feeling great sensations

Feeling all kind of sensations

Intense experiences

Art is the only certain
Reject the religious faith

Literary language

Absence of any didactic aim
Disenchantment with contemporary society
Perversity in subject metter
Hedonistic attitude
Excessive attention to the self
Evocative use of the language of sense

Origins

Walter Pater (1839-1894)
Had a deep influence on the artists and the writers of the 1890s
His masterpieces

Were immediately successful with the young because of their subversive and "demoralising" message

"Marius the Epicurean" (1885)

"Studies in the History of the Renaissance" (1873)

Was the theorist of the Aesthetic Movement in England