The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement in Britain 1860-1900
02/04/2011 - 17/07/2011
This spring the Victoria and Albert Museum in London presents the exhibition, The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement in Britain 1860-1900, the first major exhibition to comprehensively explore Aestheticism in late nineteenth century England.
Aestheticism in that period was taken to an extreme in contrast to the ever more marked respectability of the Victorian era.
The artists, writers and architects who subscribed to Aestheticism completely revolutionised their fields of work, exploring new frontiers in painting and sculpture but also in the design of everyday objects, furniture and dwellings.
The exhibition gathers nearly 250 works by artists such as William Morris, James McNeill Whistler, Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Oscar Wilde.
For the first time ever the ceramics by Edward Willliam Godwin will be exhibited to the public.
The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement in Britain 1860-1900
Victoria and Albert Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 2RL - UK
Tel. +44 (0) 20 7942 2000
www.vam.ac.uk
