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Aestheticism

art movement emphasizing aesthetic considerations over social values
Intangible art_movement Q256922
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Summary

Aestheticism is an art movement[1]. Aestheticism ranks in the top 6% of art movement entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,270 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland[3]
  • Instance of: literary movement[4]
  • Commons category: Aestheticism[5]
  • Inception: 1870[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Aestheticism[7]
  • Commons gallery: Aestheticism[8]
  • Interested in: art for art's sake[9]

Why It Matters

Aestheticism has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] Aestheticism is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

Related Entities

Aubrey Beardsley Frederic Leighton Harold Bloom James McNeill Whistler Kafū Nagai Oscar Wilde United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Yukio Mishima

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . tate.org.uk. Retrieved . tate.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . tate.org.uk. Retrieved . tate.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . tate.org.uk. Retrieved . tate.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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