Appreciations: With an Essay on Style (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Walter Pater

Overview

Published in 1889, and revised in 1890, this essay was a clarion call by Pater for art criticism based on subjective emotional, rather than moralistic, criteria.  It was met with controversy, with some critics going so far as to accuse Pater of immorality and outright hedonism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411440388
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	03/01/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	286 KB

About the Author

Walter Pater (1839-1894) was a British critic and essayist who championed the idea of "art for art's sake," which was later used by such figures as Oscar Wilde and other devotees of Aestheticism.  His essays on art and literature were printed in his Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), one of his most famous works.