Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Victorian Age (end
of the 19thcentury)
- Queen Victoria
- British Empire
- Industry
- Victorian compromise
- Reality (bad conditions, urban slums) was covered by strict
morality of puritans. What was shown was just the surface
(faith in progress)
- Works where we can see this aspect
Anlagen:
- Positivism: the Victorian
compromise was accepted,
because people had faith in
progress
- Aestheticism: reaction
- Work of art
- Art doesn't teach
anything: "art for
art's sake"
- Immortal
- If it's discussed,
it's important
- Not an imitation of reality
- People
- Must admire the style
(exterior, surface) but not
analyze the content
- Can't admire a
useful thing
- Artist
- Mortal
- Must live his life as a
work of art
- Authors
- Oscar Wilde ("The picture of Dorian Gray"