Walter Pater

Imaginary Portraits (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Published in 1887, Imaginary Portraits consists of four studies of fictional characters in historical settings. They are notable not only as illustrations of Pater's aesthetic theories but as influential works of literature. The characters include A Prince of Court Painters, set in Valenciennes in 1701, Denys L'Auxerrois, from a French town called Auxerre, Sebastian van Storck, a young man from Holland during its push for independence, and Duke Carl of Rosenmold, a young Duke who disappeared from the region a century before the narrator's time. As Oscar Wilde wrote, "This is a singularly attractive book. Mr. Pater . . . is at least our greatest artist in prose."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barnes & Noble
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781411441248
• Artikelnr.: 50390170

Autorenporträt

Walter Pater (1839-1894), was an English critic, essayist, and humanist who argued that art exists for the sake of its beauty alone, rather than to teach a lesson, create a parallel, or perform another didactic purpose. "Art for art's sake" is a core principle of Aestheticism, the movement he helped found. Pater's exquisite writing style and bold ideas exerted a powerful influence on such writers as Oscar Wilde, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, W. B. Yeats, Paul Valéry, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and Wallace Stevens and has had lasting influence on the field of art criticism.