Touring Exhibition: Art for Art's Sake
Edward Burne-Jones, The Garden of the Hesperides, 1882. Museum no. CIRC.525-1953, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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The Aesthetic Movement sought to create an entirely new kind of art and design in 19th-century Britain. Set free from outworn cultural ideas and moral codes and based upon the most refined sensibility, this was to be Art for Art’s sake’ - paintings which did not tell stories or point morals, but existed only in order to be beautiful; sculptures that simply offered visual and tactile delight and dared to hint at sensual pleasures; and design that, by beautifying everyday objects, transformed ordinary houses into ‘palaces of art’. This exhibition, bringing together key objects from the V&A’s collections and a number of important lenders, explores the unconventional creativity of the Aesthetic movement in Britain.
Size: 500-600m2
Available from 2014
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