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Still, there is something more than just highly developed aestheticism going on here.

That aestheticism is a virtue; it shows up in his other work too.

His poetry is seen as an example of 19th-century aestheticism.

This is far from the sophisticated aestheticism of Sappho's group.

But such a canon is formed by critics whose values of aestheticism are not neutral.

His ideal was an anti-elitist aestheticism: "All men should be artists".

The term should not be confused with aestheticism.

What other creature has thus merged the aestheticism of mechanics and hydraulics?

Among English-speaking artists, the closest counterpart to symbolism was aestheticism.

His poems are inspired by both aestheticism and spiritualism.

The expression of a cultivated aestheticism, it celebrates art as our only available faith and ethical guide.

This group's influence led Friedeberg to believe in the autonomy of aestheticism.

The Heian court during this period became renowned for its style and aestheticism.

The example of the Third symphony offers numerous compromises characteristic for socialist aestheticism.

Aestheticism is a strong motif and is tied in with the concept of the double life.

I find karate aestheticism in imperceptible moments, when the stability and the silence suddenly move off.

Some see modernism in the tradition of 19th century aestheticism and the "art for art's sake" movement.

In the United States he is seen as a 'harbinger of aestheticism.

His art criticism involved an aestheticism like that of his literary criticism.

His work is also studied within the context of Aestheticism and British Symbolism.

This can cast us back to that sense of aestheticism and dedication that we saw in the sixth elegy.

Callinicos, in his haste to counter aestheticism, reduces the aesthetic.

He never threw off from himself that disproportionate accumulation of aestheticism which is the burden of the amateur.

Aestheticism - often associated with Romanticism, a philosophy defining aesthetic value as the primary goal in understanding literature.

The problem was the aristocratic aestheticism that the court nobility had bequeathed to Viennese bourgeois culture.

But the search, if carried on according to right laws, would constitute estheticism.

What was this estheticism he had crossed the sea to promulgate?

The gallery has long been known for a pure estheticism and an emphasis on work with a clear human element.

In these paintings, the distinction between medicine and estheticism vanishes.

Then he braved them by saying, "Estheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful.

At the same time, more or less, Flaubert made a religion of style, from which modernism and estheticism grew.

Estheticism and artistic norms became the primary value criterion.

"There's such a dichotomy between a highly tuned estheticism and commercialism," she said.

It is not surprising that the children rebelled in ostentatious militancies of estheticism.

Something about realism as opposed to estheticism.

The effect was not that of a finicky estheticism, but of authentic beauty and dignity.

Shattuck also understands the seeming paradox that estheticism is the enemy of art.

The fairly mainstream crowd at the Fez embraced his sometimes campy, often rhapsodic estheticism.

He preferred beauty to estheticism.

Certainly the love of estheticism is there at Stubbs Books and Prints.

What he offered was not the rarefaction and preciosity of early Pater, but a reconsidered estheticism.

In turn, the women themselves are consigned to remain figures who "exemplified the impact of estheticism" rather than authentic creative talents.

Most of Ribičič's work, written in the fin-de-siecle estheticism, is children literature.

For the figure to have adopted such an unseemly pose as a split would have violated ancient Greek notions of estheticism.

But there is a distancing air of contempt to the proceedings, a faint disdain for the emptiness of posturing estheticism.

"The Revival of Estheticism".

All the same, it looks as though Sheeler embraced the mode without first weighing its discipline against his own Beardsley-like estheticism.

Dating from the early years of this century, it combines a wispy, Whistlerian estheticism with a modernist bent for machinery, overall pattern and abstraction.

Still, Mr. Liebermann is clearly enamored of Wilde's extravagant if self-indulgent estheticism.

Everything about him - his flamboyant dress, his long hair, his estheticism, even his epigrams - seems easy to imitate, except his literary substance.