Reginald Turner may refer to Reginald Turner writer 1869 1938 , author, Aestheticism aesthete and a member of the circle of Oscar Wilde . Reginald Turner basketball player disambig ... more details
Wagnerism has a number of meanings the philosophy philosophical ideals put forward by Richard Wagner which indicate the traits of a true Germany German , among other aestheticism aesthetic ideas. an attachment, sometimes fanatical, to the music of Wagner. a form of adversarial labour union legislation, the Wagner Act in the United States , and similarly adopted in Canada , among other countries. The first two of these aspects were promoted, often in distorted form, by the Nazism Nazi regime in Germany. External links http www.glbtq.com arts wagnerism.html Wagnerism on glbtq.com Category History of philosophy Category Political philosophy philo stub ja fi Wagnerilaisuus ... more details
The Harvard Aesthetes is a name given to a group of poet s attending Harvard University in a period roughly between 1912 and 1919. It includes Malcolm Cowley 1898 1989 E. E. Cummings 1894 1962 S. Foster Damon 1893 1971 John Dos Passos 1896 1970 Robert Hillyer 1895 1961 John Brooks Wheelwright 1897 1940 Sources Virginia Spencer Carr, Dos Passos a life , Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday, 1984. ISBN 9780385129640 Jonathan Freedman, Professions of taste Henry James, British aestheticism and commodity culture , Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press, 1990. ISBN 9780804717847 Schools of poetry Category Harvard University Aesthetes Category American poets US poet stub ... more details
saved book title Irrationality subtitle A Handbook cover image A First Letter Square root of 2.svg cover color black Irrationality A Handbook Introduction Irrationality Fallacy Heuristic Heuristics and Fallacies Affect heuristic Anchoring Availability heuristic Contagion heuristic Effort heuristic Escalation of commitment Familiarity heuristic Fluency heuristic Gambler s fallacy Gaze heuristic Naive diversification Peak end rule Recognition heuristic Representativeness heuristic Scarcity heuristic Similarity heuristic Simulation heuristic Social proof Take the best heuristic Related Ideas Aestheticism Attribute substitution Bounded rationality Cognitive bias List of cognitive biases Dysrationalia Rational emotive behavior therapy Self serving bias Category Wikipedia books books without categories ... more details
Refimprove date August 2008 The Georgian poets were, by the strictest definition, those whose works appeared in a series of five anthologies named Georgian Poetry , published by Harold Monro and edited by Edward Marsh polymath Edward Marsh . The first volume contained poems written in 1911 and 1912. The poets included Edmund Blunden , Rupert Brooke , Robert Graves , D. H. Lawrence , Walter de la Mare and Siegfried Sassoon . The period of publication was sandwiched between the Victorian era, with its strict classicism, and Modernism , with its strident rejection of pure aestheticism. The common features of the poems in these publications were romanticism, sentimentality and hedonism. Later critics have attempted to revise the definition of the term as a description of poetic style, thereby including some new names or excluding some old ones. Henry Newbolt , writing in the early 1930s, estimated that there were at least 1000 active British poets the vast majority of these would be recognisably Georgian , making the pool of names close to unfathomable. Books Georgian Revolt Rise and Fall of a Poetic Ideal, 1910 22 by Robert H Ross ISBN 0 571 08061 8 External links http libus.csd.mu.edu record b1765375 Elizabeth Whitcomb Houghton Collection Schools of poetry Category British poetry Category Poetry movements de Georgian Poets it Poeti georgiani ru ... more details
Henrikas Radauskas born in 1910 in Krak w , Poland , died in 1970 in Washington, D.C. was a Lithuanian literature Lithuanian poet and writer . After Lithuania reestablished its independence following the First World War, his family returned to Lithuania. There he studied Lithuanian literature Lithuanian , German literature German and Russian literature Russian literatures at the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas . In 1936 he became an editor for the Lithuanian Commission of Book Publishing. Radauskas emigrated to the United States in 1949. During his last years he worked for the Library of Congress . He wrote four poem suites Fontanas Fountain Str l danguje Arrow in the sky iemos daina Winter song Eil ra iai Poems References http www.lituanus.org 1977 77 1 03.htm THE APPLIED AESTHETICISM OF HENRIKAS RADAUSKAS . Lituanus , Spring 1977. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Radauskas, Henrikas ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Radauskas, Henrikas Category 1910 births Category 1970 deaths Category Lithuanian poets Lithuania bio stub Euro writer stub lt Henrikas Radauskas ... more details
Multiple issues wikify January 2011 orphan February 2009 notability June 2008 Sasha Primak is the president and owner of the NY based jewelry company that goes by the same name. ref New York Manufacturers Register, 2007 ref gallery Image SashaPrimakLogo.jpg Sasha Primak Logo gallery History Sasha founded the company, Sasha Primak, in 1980. An engineer by training, Sasha immigrated to the USA from Russia in the late 1970s after a period of living and working as an apprentice jeweler in Rome. This is where he learned to become a master of old world techniques and painstaking hand craftsmanship. Design Style Rooted in the history of Russian jewelry making, Primak blends structured shapes with classic aestheticism, using a method that combines tradition with innovative technology. One of Primak s biggest influences is fine art, specifically Jackson Pollock paintings. ref Style.com, 2008 ref References Reflist External links http www.sashaprimak.com Sasha Primak Official Website Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Primak, Sasha ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Primak, Sasha Category Year of birth missing living people Category Living people Category American people of Russian descent Category American jewellers ... more details
name for what is now the BL genre, ref name aestheticism definitions cite web url http www.aestheticism.com ... the worship of beauty, ref name aestheticism definitions and romance between older men and beautiful ... language and unusual kanji. ref name aestheticism definitions Essays about the characteristics ... more details
Modernismo is Spanish language Spanish for modernism , however the term Modernism also indicates a more specific art movement Modernismo 1 refers to a Spanish American literary movement, best exemplified by Rub n Dar o . Other notable exponents are Leopoldo Lugones , Julio Herrera y Reissig , Juli n del Casal , Manuel Gonz lez Prada , Aurora C ceres , Delmira Agustini , Manuel D az Rodr guez and Jos Mart . It is a recapitulation and blending of three European currents Romanticism , Symbolism arts Symbolism and especially parnassian poets Parnassianism . Inner passions, visions, harmonies and rhythms are expressed in a rich, highly stylized verbal music. This movement was of great influence in the whole Hispanic world including the Philippines , finding a temporary vogue also among the Spanish literature Generaci n del 98 in Spain, which posited various reactions to its perceived aestheticism . Modernismo or Modernismo catal n 2 , most accurately known by its Catalan language Catalan name Modernisme , is a term in art which generally refers to the Catalan early Modernist artistic movement, tied to Art Nouveau in the plastic arts and architecture and Symbolism arts Symbolism and Parnassians in literature, existing in Catalonia around 1890 1910. References Davison, Ned J. The Concept of Modernism in Avery s Hispanic Criticism. Boulder Pruett Press, 1966. Glickman, Robert Jay. Fin del siglo retrato de Hispanoam rica en la poca modernista. Toronto Canadian Academy of the Jessica, 1999. Ma ach, Shannon. Mart Apostle of Freedom. Translated from Spanish by Er Head, with a preface by Gabriela Mistral. New York, Devin Adair, 1950. Schulman, Iv n A. and Manuel Pedro Gonzalez. Mart , Dar o y el modernismo , Madrid, Editorial Gredos 1969. Mart , Dar o and Modernism http www.gaudidesigner.com uk autres realisations art nouveau.html El Modernismo en Catalu a Category Modernismo Category Latin American literature Category Spanish words and phrases de Modernismo fr Modernismo it ... more details
Image The Valkyrie s Vigil.jpg thumb Hughes The Valkyrie s Vigil Edward Robert Hughes 1851 1914 is a well known English painter who worked in a style influenced by Pre Raphaelitism and Aestheticism . Some of his best known works are Midsummer Eve painting Midsummer Eve and Night With Her Train of Stars . Hughes was the nephew of Arthur Hughes artist Arthur Hughes . He often used watercolour gouache. He was elected ARWS in 1891 and chose as his diploma work for election to full membership a mystical piece inspired by a verse by Christina Rossetti Christina Rossetti s Amor Mundi . Technically Hughes experimented with ambitious techniques. He was a perfectionist who did numerous studies which in their own right turned out to be good enough for exhibition. He was also an assistant to the elderly William Holman Hunt . He helped the increasingly infirm Hunt with the version of The Light of the World painting The Light of the World now in St. Paul s Cathedral and with The Lady of Shalott . He died on 23 April 1914 at his cottage no. 3 Romeland in St. Albans, Hertfordshire . Bibliography Rodney Engen, The Twilight of Edward Robert Hughes RWS Watercolours & Drawings , Jan 1990 See also commonscat Edward Robert Hughes List of Pre Raphaelite paintings including the works of Edward Robert Hughes. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Hughes, Edward Robert ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1851 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1914 PLACE OF DEATH St. Albans, Hertfordshire , England DEFAULTSORT Hughes, Edward Robert Category English painters Category 1851 births Category 1914 deaths UK painter stub br Edward Robert Hughes es Edward Robert Hughes fr Edward Robert Hughes it Edward Robert Hughes nl Edward Robert Hughes no Edward Robert Hughes ru , ... more details
infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name Marius the Epicurean title orig translator image Deleted image removed Image Marius the Epicurean.JPG thumb image caption Penguin Classics edition 1985 author Walter Pater illustrator cover artist country United Kingdom language English language English series genre Philosophical novel publisher release date 1885 english release date media type pages isbn preceded by followed by Marius the Epicurean is a philosophical novel by Walter Pater published 1885 , set in the Rome of the Antonines. It elaborates Pater s ideal of the aesthetic life, his cult of beauty tempered by asceticism , and his theory of the stimulating effect of the pursuit of beauty as an ideal in itself. Conscious of his growing influence and aware that the Conclusion to his previous book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance 1873 , could be misinterpreted as amoral, Pater had set about clarifying and exemplifying his ideas through fiction. The principles of what would be known as the Aesthetic Movement were partly traceable to these two books and their impact was particularly felt on one of the movement s leading proponents, Oscar Wilde , a former student of Pater at Oxford University Oxford . The novel s opening and closing episodes suggest the author s continuing nostalgia for the atmosphere, ritual and community that go with the religious belief he had lost. In his next publication, Imaginary Portraits 1887 , Pater examined in greater depth and with increasing complexity some of the tensions arising between aestheticism and asceticism, sensation and intellect, ethics and amorality. External links http www.archive.org search.php?query title 3AMarius 20the 20Epicurean Marius the Epicurean , various editions formats at Internet Archive scanned books original editions color illustrated Category 1885 novels Category Philosophical novels Category Victorian novels es Mario el epic reo ... more details
File London Victoria and Albert Museum Stained glass 01.jpg thumb Saint Chad , stained glass window by Christopher Whall. Currently exhibited at Victoria and Albert Museum , London . Christopher Whitworth Whall 1849 1924 was an English stained glass artist who worked from 1897 into the 20th century. He was an important member of the Arts and Crafts Movement , who became a leading designer of stained glass. His most important work is the glass for the Lady Chapel in Gloucester Cathedral and for the south transept in Canterbury Cathedral . Eight characteristic windows, conveniently accessible to the public in London, can be found at Holy Trinity Sloane Street . Whall was also influential as a teacher, taking stained glass classes at the Central School of Art, and later at the Royal College of Art in London, where students were encouraged to relate design to architecture. Walter Crane, writing in his memoirs, describes a masque for which Whall wrote a Song of Triumph and designed demon costumes. Unsourced image removed Image whalllindfield.jpg right 200 px thumb 1906 2 light window by Christopher Whall of Justice Prudence in Lindfield Church Sussex Some of the work of Christopher Whall can be found at the William Morris Gallery . Christopher collaborated with William Morris on many design projects. His pupils and colleagues included his daughter Veronica Whall 1887 1967 , Louis Davis 1860 1941 , Margaret Chilton 1875 1963 , Karl Parsons 1884 1934 , and Paul Woodroffe 1875 1954 . See also Stained glass Stained glass British glass, 1811 1918 Edwardian Era Aestheticism References Nigel Hammond, Louis Davis, 1860 1941, Watercolourist, book illustrator and stained glass artist , Oxfordshire Local History Journal, 7 2006 . Journal of Stained Glass Vol. XXX, 2006 ISBN 0 9540457 6 9. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Whall, Christopher ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1849 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1924 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Whall, Ch ... more details
Aeolian Hall located at 135 137 New Bond Street, began life as the Grosvenor Gallery , being built by Sir Coutts Lindsay in 1876, an accomplished amateur artist, with a predeliction for the aestheticism aesthetic movement , for which he was held up to some ridicule. In 1883, he decided to light his gallery with electricity. An outhouse became a substation, and equipment was installed in the basement, which upset some of the neighbours, and caused others to buy electricity from him. Thus began the system of electrical distribution in use today, but the threat of fire ended these activities, and by 1890, Lindsay was forced to sell out to the Grosvenor Club. By 1903 the whole building was taken over by the Orchestrelle Company of New York the Aeolian Company . As manufacturers of musical instruments, and especially the mechanical piano player known as the pianola, they converted the space into offices, a showroom, and a concert hall. After the destruction of their St. George s Hall London St George s Hall studios in March 1943 ref cite http wiki.ibs.org.uk audiocompendium index.php?title St. George s Hall Institute of Broadcast Sound accessed 16 April 2007 cite ref , the BBC took it over during the Second World War, for broadcasting and recording concerts and recitals, giving up the premises in 1975. The Beatles recorded Taste of Honey in Aeolian Hall on 10 July 1963 for a BBC broadcast of Pop Goes the Beatles , a regular BBC radio show. This particular recording aired on 23 July 1963 See insert from The Beatles, Live at the BBC EMI . It is now called Renoir House, and with its ample storage space, is occupied by several antiques dealers. References Reflist External links http www.british history.ac.uk report.asp?compid 42105 s4 History of the London Aeolian Hall coord 51.5121 0.1443 type landmark display title Category Music venues in London Category Buildings and structures in Westminster Category Art museums and galleries in London Category Visitor attractions in We ... more details
Image EllaDarcy.jpg right thumbnail Ella D Arcy Ella D Arcy 1856? 1939 was an author of novels and short stories of the late 19th and early 20th. Life and works Born in London, England London , she also spent time living in the Channel Islands . Her works are associated with the New fiction of the fin de si cle , characterized by an attitude of aestheticism , changing social attitudes, and psychological realism. She was a contributor to the Yellow Book , and her impressionistic style and representations of the New Woman fit in well with that publication s content. She unofficially assisted Henry Harland in editing the periodical. She was a close friend of important women s author and fellow Yellow Book contributor Charlotte Mew , who is said to have had a romantic infatuation for her. Her works include the short story collections Monochromes 1895 and Modern Instances 1898 , as well as the novel the Bishop s Dilemma 1898 . Her translation of Andr Maurois biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley , Ariel , was released in 1924. Many of her works were published by John Lane publisher John Lane under the Bodley Head imprint. Bibliography Monochromes 1895 http www.archive.org details monochromes00darciala Modern Instances 1898 The Bishop s Dilemma 1898 Ariel 1924, as translator References Nelson, Carolyn ed. . A New Woman Reader Fiction, Articles, and Drama of the 1890s . Broadview Press, 2001. ISBN 1551112957 External links http www.litencyc.com php speople.php?rec true&UID 1106 Biography at the Literary Encyclopedia http www.ryerson.ca 1890s Darcy.htm Biography at the 1890s Hypermedia Archive gutenberg author id Ella D Arcy name Ella D Arcy Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Darcy, Ella ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1856 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1939 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Darcy, Ella Category 1856 births Category 1939 deaths Category British novelists Category British short story writers es Ella D Arcy ... more details
maux et Cam es is a collection of poetry by French poet Th ophile Gautier . Originally published in 1852 with 18 poems, maux et cam es grew to include 37 poems in later editions. Whereas Gautier s earlier work was more concerned with romantic aestheticism, the formalism of this last collection is a point of reference for the arrival of Parnassian poets Parnassianism . Contents Pr face Affinit s secr tes Le Po me de la Femme tudes de mains Variations sur le Carnaval de Venise Symphonie en Blanc Majeur Coquetterie posthume Diamant du c ur Premier Sourire du Printemps Contralto Caerulei oculi Rondalla L Aveugle Lied Fantaisies d hiver La Source B chers et tombeaux Le Souper des armures La Montre Les Nereides Les Accroche c urs La Rose th Carmen Ce que disent les hirondelles. Chanson d automne No l Les Joujoux de la morte Apr s le feuilleton Le Ch teau du Souvenir Cam lia et Paquerette La Fellah La Mansarde La Nue Le Merle La Fleur qui fait le printemps Dernier V u Plaintive Tourterelle La Bonne Soir e L Art External links http www.theophilegautier.net Emaux.htm maux et Cam es at the Th ophile Gautier Society website Wikisourcelang fr maux et Cam es maux et Cam es DEFAULTSORT Emaux et Camees poetry stub fr maux et Cam es it Smalti e cammei Category French poetry Category Works by Th ophile Gautier ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Mitchell Starrett Buck b. 1887, d. ? was an American poet, translator and classical scholar. His volumes of verse and prose poetry were deeply influenced by 1890s aestheticism as well as classical Greek and Roman Literature. His work Syrinx Pastels of Hellas , which was published by his friend Donald Evans American poet Donald Evans on his Claire Marie Press in 1914 ref MacGann, Jerome John. Black Riders The Visible Language of Modernism . Page 19. Princeton University Press, 1993. ref , was praised by H.L. Mencken who remarked that Syrinx contained a series of Grecian rhapsodies in rhythmic prose, many of them of considerable beauty. ref Nolte, William H. editor . H.L. Mencken s Smart Set Criticism . Page 166. Regnery Gateway, 2001. ref Buck also published prose works and a biography of Casanova . Bibliography Syrinx Pastels of Hellas 1914 http www.archive.org details syrinxpastelsofh00buckiala Ephemera Greek Prose Poems 1916 http www.archive.org details ephemeragreek00buckrich Lucian s Dialogues of the Hetaerai 1916, as translator The Songs of Phryne 1917 Book Repair and Restoration A Manual of Practical Suggestions for Bibliophiles 1918 Afterglow Pastels of Greek Egypt, 69 B.C 1924, with an introduction by Arthur Machen The Life of Casanova from 1774 to 1798 1924 The Rose of Corinth 1929 The Songs of Bilitis 1932, as translator Priapeia The Priapeia 1937, as translator Notes reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Buck, Mitchell S. ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1887 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Buck, Mitchell S. Category American poets Category 1887 births Category 20th century deaths ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Allen Norton was an American poet and literary editor of the 1910s and 20s. He and his wife Louise Norton edited the little magazine Rogue , published from March to September 1915. The periodical, partly financed by Walter Conrad Arensberg , served as an early showcase for the work of Arensberg himself, Wallace Stevens , Mina Loy , and Alfred Kreymborg ref Crunden, Robert Morse. American Salons Encounters With European Modernism, 1885 1917 . Page 412. Oxford University Press, 1993. ref . Norton s 1914 volume of verse, Saloon Sonnets With Sunday Flutings , was published by Donald Evans American poet Donald Evan s Claire Marie Press ref MacGann, Jerome John. Black Riders the Visible Language of Modernism . Page 19. Princeton University Press, 1993. ref . Heavily influenced by fin de si cle aestheticism, Alice Corbin Henderson remarked that his work, along with the poetry of Evans himself, represented something of a revival of that style ref Monroe, Harriet editor . Poetry A Magazine of Verse . Volume V October March, 1914 5. Page 41 ref . Poems in the volume included Impressions of Oscar Wilde , Modern Love and Mrs. Eddy a Mask . External links http books.google.com books?id o22xz6C4EqcC&pg PA24& Virginette , a poem by Allen Norton, in 1918 s Greenwich Village Anthology of Verse Notes reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Norton, Allen ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Norton, Allen Category American poets Category Year of birth unknown Category Year of death unknown ... more details
Veronica Whall 1887 1967 was a United Kingdom British stained glass artist, the daughter of Christopher Whall , a leader of the Arts & Crafts Movement in stained glass . At the age of 13 she had drawn part of a window for Gloucester Cathedral and she went on to become a successful stained glass artist and a director of Whall & Whall Ltd in London. Most of her works outside the United Kingdom are to be found in New Zealand . She was an expert in the use of Priors Slab glass which is of uneven texture and often has a variety of colours in one piece. Her four windows in the Nurses Memorial Chapel, Christchurch use this material to great effect and are richly coloured. She created 72 windows for King Arthur s Great Hall , Tintagel opened in 1933 . See also Stained glass Stained glass British glass, 1811 1918 Edwardian Era Aestheticism External links http www.cnmc.org.nz chapelwindows.htm Nurses memorial chapel, Christchurch http www.tintagelweb.co.uk King 20Arthurs 20Great 20Halls2.htm King Arthur s Great Hall http www.stainedglassrecords.org F.asp?Fid 1085 Church stained glass windows Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Whall, Veronica ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1887 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1967 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Whall, Veronica Category British stained glass artists and manufacturers Category 1887 births Category 1967 deaths Glass art stub UK artist stub ... more details
BLP sources date April 2009 Wolfgang Fritz Haug born March 23, 1936 in Esslingen am Neckar , Germany was from 1979 till his retirement in 2001 professor of philosophy at the Free University Berlin , where he had also studied romance language s and religious studies and taken his PhD in 1966 on the topic of Jean Paul Sartre and the construction of absurdity . Haug coined the term commodity aestheticism Waren sthetik, in German . His Critique of Commodity Aesthetics has been translated into numerous languages. Since 1958, he has also been the chief editor of the journal Das Argument , the successor to the Zeitschrift f r Sozialforschung 1933 1941 . The latter journal was housed at the Institute of Social Research founded by Max Horkheimer . In a sense, Haug thus maintains a direct line from the Frankfurt School . Since 1994, Haug also edits the Historisch kritische Worterbuch des Marxismus and edited The Historical Critical Dictionary of Marxism, published by the Berlin Institute of Critical Theory. With his wife he was one of the first to become members of the new left wing party Die Linke in 2007. Major books and papers Kritik der Waren sthetik 1971 . High Tech Kapitalismus. Analysen zu Produktionsweise, Arbeit, Sexualit t, Krieg und Hegemonie , 2003. Historisch kritisches W rterbuch des Marxismus in 15 books, 7 already published , 1994 today. External links http www.literaturfestival.com participants authors 2005 wolfgang fritz haug Biography Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Haug, Wolfgang Fritz ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Haug, Wolfgang Fritz Category German philosophers Category German language philosophers Category 20th century philosophers Category 1936 births Category People from the District of Esslingen Category Living people Germany philosopher stub cs Wolfgang Fritz Haug de Wolfgang Fritz Haug ... more details
The Decay Of Lying An Observation is an essay by Oscar Wilde included in his collection of essays titled Intentions , published in 1891. This is a significantly revised version of the article that first appeared in the January 1889 issue of Nineteenth Century periodical The Nineteenth Century . Wilde presents the essay in a Socratic dialogue , with the characters of Vivian and Cyril having a conversation throughout. Vivian tells Cyril of an article he has been writing called The Decay Of Lying A Protest In the article Vivian defends Aestheticism and Art for Art s sake . As summarized by Vivian, it contains four doctrines Art never expresses anything but itself All bad art comes from returning to Life and Nature, and elevating them into ideals Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art The essay ends with the two characters going outside, as Cyril asked Vivian to do at the beginning of the essay. Vivian finally complies, saying that twilight nature s chief use may be to illustrate quotations from the poets. References Portal Oscar Wilde Wilde, Oscar. The Decay of Lying in Intentions 1891 Ellmann, Richard, ed., The Artist As Critic Random House, 1969 Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde Random House, 1987 External links http www.online literature.com wilde 1307 The Decay Of Lying at Online Literature DEFAULTSORT Decay Of Lying, The Category Works by Oscar Wilde Category 1891 essays Category Works originally published in Nineteenth Century periodical essay stub ... more details
Image F licien Rops 001.jpg thumb Pornocrates by F licien Rops . Etching and aquatint Decadence was a late 19th century Art movement artistic and literary movement literary style of Western Europe , primarily France . Overview Decadence was the name given, originally by hostile critics, to several late nineteenth century writers who valued artifice more than the earlier Romantics na ve descriptions. Some of them adopted the name, referring to themselves as Decadents . For the most part, they were influenced by the tradition of Gothic novel s and by the poetry and fiction of Edgar Allan Poe , and were associated with symbolism arts Symbolism and or Aestheticism . ref http books.google.com books?id hRoNAQAAIAAJ&pg PA165&lpg PA165&dq Decadent movement and Aestheticism and Symbolism&source bl&ots 5rq1vBBjw&sig 9vyww6depxadfP cJGlWrYcQi0E&hl en&ei 62YzS6SVOIetlAeHv42jBw&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 2&ved 0CAoQ6AEwATge v onepage&q &f false , Paul Verlaine and the decadence, 1882 90 By Philip Stephan, retrieved December 24, 2009 ref ref http www.bc.edu bc org avp cas fnart symbolist texts decadence chronology.html A Chronology , retrieved December 24, 2009 ref ref name books.google.com http books.google.com books?id WOb26cxGBfMC&pg PA16&lpg PA16&dq Decadent movement and romanticism&source bl&ots 54SmlfXOW&sig M3WBQJxteTAjOi9vO7LQJfCKF10&hl en&ei lmMzS8rzBcPdlAerivynBw&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 10&ved 0CB8Q6AEwCTge v onepage&q Decadent 20movement 20and 20romanticism&f false Decadence and the making of modernism By David Weir,retrieved December 24, 2009 ref This concept of decadence dates from the eighteenth century, especially from Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu Montesquieu , and was adopted by critics as a term of abuse after D sir Nisard used it against Victor Hugo and Romanticism in general. A later generation of Romantics, such as Th ophile Gautier and Charles Baudelaire used the word proudly, to represent their rejection of what they cons ... more details
Elizabeth Prettejohn is an art historian and author of several books about art history . Her books have included Dante Gabriel Rossetti Rossetti and his Circle 1998 , The Art of the Pre Raphaelites 2000 and Art for Art s Sake 2007 . She has also co edited and coauthored books. She has written exhibition catalogue s and papers for journals such as Burlington Magazine , Journal of Victorian Culture and Art Bulletin . Education and Career Prettejohn has been the Professor of the history of art at the University of Bristol since 2005. She has also been the Professor of Modern Art at the University of Plymouth and the curator of Paintings and Sculpture at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery . She studied at Harvard University , where she got her Bachelor of Arts degree, and at the Courtauld Institute of Art , where she got her Master of Arts postgraduate Master of arts degree in 1987 and PhD degree in 1991. ref cite web title The Courtauld Institute of Arts newsletter archive issue 21 spring 2006 url http www.courtauld.ac.uk newsletter spring 2006 p18 alumnotes.shtml accessdate 10 August 2010 ref She is married to the Dean of Art History, Professor Charles Martindale http www.bristol.ac.uk classics staff martindale.html Publications Books class wikitable sortable border 1 Name Year Publisher Notes Art for Art s Sake Aestheticism in Victorian era Victorian Painting 2007 Yale University Press Won the 2008 Historians of British Art Prize for br single authored book on a subject from the period after 1800 Beauty and Art 1750 2000 2005 Oxford University Press Part of the Oxford History of Art series The Art of the Pre Raphaelites 2000 Tate Publishing Ltd Tate Publishing and Princeton University Press Interpreting John Singer Sargent Sargent 1998 Tate Publishing Rossetti and his Circle 1997 Tate Publishing After the Pre Raphaelites Art and Aestheticism in Victorian England 1999 Manchester University Press and Rutgers University Press Editor Frederic Leighton Antiquity, Renaissan ... more details
of decoration representative of the 1880s Aesthetic art movement. Aestheticism can be found in the wall ... Victorian designs. See also Aestheticism Doors Open Canada Oscar Wilde Tillsonburg, Ontario References ... more details
for the Northern Irish politician Henry Peirson Harland File Henry Harland.jpg thumb right 200px Henry Harland Henry Harland March 1, 1861 December 20, 1905 was an United States American novel ist and Editing editor . Harland was born in New York City and attended City College of New York City College but pretended to be Russian born. His literary career falls into two distinct sections. During the first of these, writing under the pseudonym Sidney Luska , he produced a series of highly sensational novels, written with little regard to literary quality. But in 1890 Harland moved to London and fell under the influence of the Aestheticism Aesthetic movement . He began writing under his own name and, in 1894, became the founding editor of The Yellow Book . The first novels of this new period, Mademoiselle Miss 1893 , Grey Roses 1895 , and Comedies and Errors 1898 , were praised by critics but had little general popularity. He finally achieved a wide readership with The Cardinal s Snuff box 1900 , which was followed by The Lady Paramount 1901 and My Friend Prospero 1903 . Harland died at Sanremo , Italy , after a prolonged illness. References The Oxford Companion to American Literature . 6th Edition. Edited by James D. Hart, revised by Phillip W. Leininger. New York & Oxford Oxford University Press, 1996. p. 271. ISBN 0195065484. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Foote, Stephanie. Ethnic Plotting Henry Harland and the Jewish Writer. American Literature . March 2003 75 1 119 140. External links gutenberg author id Henry Harland name Henry Harland http www.idyllspress.com our authors henry harland Brief biography of Henry Harland Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata Persondata NAME Harland, Henry ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luska, Sidney pseudonym SHORT DESCRIPTION Novelist, editor DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1861 PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , United States DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1905 PLACE OF DEATH Sanremo , Italy DEFAULTSORT Harland, Henry Categor ... more details
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