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 and Art concludes with a challenging question for the future: Why should we care about beauty in the twenty-first century?
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