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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> That led to an article “The Condition of Music” mainly about Moore and Whistler published in Art News Annual in 1967. and subsequently to my participation in the organization of an exhibition organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in 1978 Victorian High Renaissance consisting of paintings by Watts Leighton and Moore plus sculpture by Alfred Gilbert. In 1969 I started to teach at Columbia University where I periodically offered lecture courses and led seminars devoted to aspects of Victorian art and where I worked with graduate students in organizing two exhibitions: From Realism to Symbolism: Whistler and his World in 1971 and The Post-Pre-Raphaelite Print: Etching Illustration Reproductive Engraving and Photography in England in and around the 1860s in 1995. Following the latter venture I started to consider turning some of what I felt that I had learned over the years into what has become this book. In 1967 in the essay “The Condition of Music” I described my subject as “Aestheticism” and the birth of what is often called the “Aesthetic Movement” can be seen as the main subject of the present undertaking. But that term has had such widespread currency in literature mainly about the decorative arts and has come to be used so extensively to characterize certain aspects of later Victorian taste those recorded and cari- catured by Gilbert and Sullivan and in Punch that it relegates the paintings to minor furnishing of a pantomime or farce. (OS)