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    The Aesthetic Movement of the 1870s-1900 valued art for art's sake rather than moral instruction. Key tenets included living intensely through the senses, idealism, emphasizing the soul as a philosophical concept, valuing beauty above other values, and cultivating an artificial life that imitated art. Major authors of the movement included Oscar Wilde, who was satirized in the character Bunthorne in the comic opera Patience for his embodiment of Aesthetic values.

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    The Aesthetic Movement of the 1870s-1900 valued art for art's sake rather than moral instruction. Key tenets included living intensely through the senses, idealism, emphasizing the soul as a philosophical concept, valuing beauty above other values, and cultivating an artificial life that imitated art. Major authors of the movement included Oscar Wilde, who was satirized in the character Bunthorne in the comic opera Patience for his embodiment of Aesthetic values.

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    The Aesthetic Movement

    Aesthetic Movement, 1870s-1900


    Art for arts sake (Lart pour lArt) rather than for moral instruction. Baudelaire: Poetry has no other end but itself. . . If a poet has followed a moral end he has diminished his poetic force. Like the later Decadent movement, an interest in experience through the senses.

    Tenets of the Aesthetic Movement


    Living intensely (Pater, Baudelaire) Idealism and living for the ideal Emphasis on the soul (as a philosophical rather than religious concept) Sensitivity to beauty and artistic experiences Placing beauty above other values (valuing church rituals for their sensory impact, for example) Cultivated artificiality: life imitates art rather than vice versa (Wilde, The Decay of Lying

    Authors
    Aubrey Beardsley Max Beerbohm Ernest Dowson Richard Le Gallienne Lionel Johnson George Meredith William Morris Walter Pater Dante Gabriel Rossetti John Ruskin Algernon Charles Swinburne Arthur Symons Oscar Wilde

    Oscar Wilde
    Gilbert and Sullivans comic opera Patience satirized the Aesthetic movement in the character of Bunthorne, who was based on Oscar Wilde. Wilde was sent on a lecture tour of United States in 1882, in part so that audiences would understand what was being satirized.

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