AESTHETICISM
CONTEXT
The aesthetic movement
Middle Classes
Industrial Development
ruined the environment
Wealth was linked to virtue that was linked to material property.
Respectability (ex, DrJ & MrH)
that was linked to falsity lead to a facade
Utilitarianism
property and what is profitable.
Puritanism
respectability
aestheticism
Cultural movement
developed in Europe during the mid 19th century;
Embodied by the ruling middle class.
as a reaction to the wealthy (middle classes).
searching for something that is beautiful
Exalt beauty n itself
In France
In Italy
D'Annunzio
Il Piacere
In England
is rappresentativ Oscar Wilde
spreading the importance of beauty expressed in art,
art is eternal unlike everything else
The form is important not the content, They didn't value content but FORM
infact he said
"there isn't bad books or well books, like a moral or immoral book, there is only a book bad written or well written"
appeals to all the senses
provoke pleasant sensation.
Provided that the form is beautiful and aesthetically pleasing, you could write whatever you wanted.