"Art, the Embodied Expression of Man"

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Anikó Németh has developed this book from her PhD devoted to the aestiietical views and the educational work ethics of the Pre-Ra-phaelite artists and theorists, especially diat of John Ruskin and WiUiam Morris. This monograph discusses the original works of the mentioned artist-thinlcers as well as places them in a framework of modern culmral and literary theories. Thus it will be useful for those readers (among them smdents of English and American studies) who are interested in die culmre of the late-Victorian period, at the same time it offers a case smdy of how to apply (post)modern theory to culmral-his-torical materials.
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The dignit}' and beauty which is facilitated by the grace and power of Namre and not the pure motives of man's earthly duty by his work provide the basis for the analysis. Therefore the smdy is more than a "semantic - concepmal clarification" oiwork má labour. It shows that a nation's scale of values does determine, yet may change, the social, culmral... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Anikó Németh has developed this book from her PhD devoted to the aestiietical views and the educational work ethics of the Pre-Ra-phaelite artists and theorists, especially diat of John Ruskin and WiUiam Morris. This monograph discusses the original works of the mentioned artist-thinlcers as well as places them in a framework of modern culmral and literary theories. Thus it will be useful for those readers (among them smdents of English and American studies) who are interested in die culmre of the late-Victorian period, at the same time it offers a case smdy of how to apply (post)modern theory to culmral-his-torical materials.
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The dignit}' and beauty which is facilitated by the grace and power of Namre and not the pure motives of man's earthly duty by his work provide the basis for the analysis. Therefore the smdy is more than a "semantic - concepmal clarification" oiwork má labour. It shows that a nation's scale of values does determine, yet may change, the social, culmral and ethical views of work.
Miklós Pdljy (University of Szeged)
To uncover ±e ideological and aesthetic relations in the character of Victorian archi-tecmre is die most exciting chapter of the study. The way the writer makes us view the aspirations and achievements of work and labour in the art of architecmre and the recognition of the educative challenges of this aesthetic work carry us far beyond the realm of Victorian aesthetics.

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Ágnes Feter (ELTE Budapest)
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