Beautifully illustrated with 100 photographs--60 in full color--"Beauty & Art" concludes with a challenging question for the future: Why should we care about beauty in the 21st century?

• Introduction


• 1: Eighteenth-Century Germany


• 2: Early Nineteenth Century France


• 3: Victorian Aestheticism


• 4: Modernism


• Further Reading

Elizabeth Prettejohn is Professor of Modern Art at the University of Plymouth.