aestheticism

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A doctrine which holds aesthetics or beauty as the highest ideal or most basic standard
Late 19th-century European arts movement that centred on the doctrine that art exists for the sake of its beauty alone. It began in reaction to prevailing utilitarian social philosophies and to the perceived ugliness and philistinism of the industrial age. Its philosophical foundations were laid by Immanuel Kant, who proposed that aesthetic standards could be separated from morality, utility, or pleasure. James McNeill Whistler, Oscar Wilde, and Stéphane Mallarmé raised the movement's ideal of the cultivation of refined sensibility to perhaps its highest point. Aestheticism had affinities with French Symbolism and was a precursor of Art Nouveau
{i} belief that beauty is the primary standard (with other standards being subordinate); excessive devotion to the arts; movement in art characterized by interest in classical art forms

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estheticism
A doctrine which holds esthetics or beauty as the highest ideal or most basic standard
estheticism
{i} belief that beauty is the primary standard (with other standards being subordinate); excessive devotion to the arts; 19th-century art movement characterized by a quest for beauty
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