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020			_a9780199535071
082			_a700.9409024 _bPAT
100			_aPater, Walter
245			_aStudies in the history of the Renaissance
260			_bOxford University Press, _aOxford : _c2010 :
300			_axxxviii, 193 p. ; _c20 cm.
365			_b499.00 _c₹ _d01
490			_aOxford World's Classics
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_aThrough his highly idiosyncratic readings of some of the finest paintings, sculptures, and poems of the French and Italian Renaissance, Walter Pater in Studies in the History of the Renaissance redefined the practice of criticism as an impressionistic, almost erotic exploration of the critic's aesthetic responses. Pater's infamous nullConclusion, null which forever linked him with the decadent movement, scandalized many with its insistence on making pleasure the sole motive of life, even as it charmed fellow aesthetes such as Oscar Wilde. This edition of Studies reproduces the text of the first edition of 1873. Matthew Beaumont's Introduction describes the cultural context that gave rise to the book, the reasons for its notoriety, Pater's philosophical outlook, and the arguments in his book. It explores Pater's work as an attempt to preserve the unique aesthetic of a work of art in the face of encroaching mass culture. The book also includes the later chapter on Giorgione as an Appendix, comprehensive notes that identify the many literary and artistic references, and a useful glossary of names.
650			_aRenaissance arts
700			_aBeaumont, Matthew _eed.
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