Beauty & Art

Oxford History of Art series

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.
Elizabeth 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 Rosetti, Cezanne to Pollack.
Beautifully illustrated with 100 photographs–60 in full color–Beauty & Art concludes with a challenging question for the future: Why should we care about beauty in the twenty-first century?

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Slight but noticeable curl to the lower outer corner of the front cover. Very light shelf wear. Indentations on back cover beneath the UPC code where it appears a name was written and erased. In VG- condition.

by Elizabeth Prettejohn

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Weight 14 oz
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