Elicia Clements and Lesley J. Higgins eds., Victorian Aesthetic Conditions: Pater Across the Arts

“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.” This memorable quotation from Walter Pater is one of the iconic British responses to Lessing’s aesthetic theories and Baudelaire’s notion of “correspondences”, both of which exerted a strong influence on the work of nineteenth-century aut...

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Publicado no:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cve,
Autor principal: Evangelista, Stefano
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicado em: Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens 2015
Acesso em linha:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Resumo:“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.” This memorable quotation from Walter Pater is one of the iconic British responses to Lessing’s aesthetic theories and Baudelaire’s notion of “correspondences”, both of which exerted a strong influence on the work of nineteenth-century authors and artists such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Swinburne and, of course, Pater himself. Pater’s pronouncement on the relation between the arts occurs in the 1877 essay “The School of Giorgione”, ...