From Aestheticism to Modernism, and Back Again

This paper argues that the conventional art-historical periodization, in which Modernism inexorably supersedes Aestheticism, and the year 1900 marks a radical break in the history of art, is seriously flawed: not only historiographically naïve, it is also tinged with misogyny and homophobia. In a lo...

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Main Author: Elizabeth Prettejohn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2006-04-01
Series:19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Online Access:http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/440