Affiliation:
1. Lancaster University , UK
Abstract
Abstract
The chapter introduces six further women not included in the book’s main narrative. Maria Callcott provided a history and taxonomy of painting. Mary Merrifield wrote mainly on the technical side of art, but also wrote some philosophical essays, for instance arguing that fashion could become a fine art. Sarah Stickney Ellis argued in The Beautiful in Nature and Art that art beauty must be based on natural beauty. Elizabeth Eastlake’s philosophical writings on art included an evaluation of photography and a highly critical engagement with Ruskin. Clementina Anstruther-Thomson was interested in artworks’ physical effects on us, while Constance Naden argued that beauty was nothing objective but that we have naturally and socially evolved to find certain phenomena beautiful.
Publisher
Oxford University PressOxford
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