Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain - Art and the Politics of Public Life - Lucy Hartley - Paperback Bog - Cambridge University Press -

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Lucy Hartley identifies a new language for speaking about beauty, which begins to be articulated from the 1830s in a climate of political reform and becomes linked to ideals of equality, liberty and individuality. Including numerous illustrations, the volume offers a fresh interdisciplinary understanding of art's relation to its public.