Pater's

Since Walter Pater's original assertion was that all art aspires to that condition, in making this distinction between poetry and "literature" -- which encompasses mostly fiction -- Jonathan must be insinuating that fiction is not finally "art" at all.

The Reading Experience 2010

In the wake of Pater's dictum and the gradual dissolution of established artistic practices toward the end of the 19th century - toward the "total work of art" Wagner sought in his operas - visual artists strove more and more to inhere the "condition of music" to their work.

Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Moving Pictures, Frozen Music Peter Frank 2010

I have not searched the public databases, and I don't know how Paulson is registered, but I would bet he's not a Republican & his contributions are the opposite of Pater's.

Lents Park on a late spring evening: beautiful (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

Since Walter Pater's original assertion was that all art aspires to that condition, in making this distinction between poetry and "literature" -- which encompasses mostly fiction -- Jonathan must be insinuating that fiction is not finally "art" at all.

March 2010 2010

In the wake of Pater's dictum and the gradual dissolution of established artistic practices toward the end of the 19th century - toward the "total work of art" Wagner sought in his operas - visual artists strove more and more to inhere the "condition of music" to their work.

Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Moving Pictures, Frozen Music Peter Frank 2010

Even without the grandstanding final essay, Pater's book is an incitement to a life of cultivated sensuousness, as well as a celebration of the "comeliness" of the human form.

Decadent Writing Of the 19th Century Nicholas Frankel 2011

It's interesting how much Kant's concept of "free beauty" anticipates Romantic aesthetics - Pater's "All art aspires to the condition of music" et al - which is diametrically opposed to the traditional Enlightenment sensibility.

Logical conclusions Matthew Guerrieri 2009

Since Walter Pater's original assertion was that all art aspires to that condition, in making this distinction between poetry and "literature" -- which encompasses mostly fiction -- Jonathan must be insinuating that fiction is not finally "art" at all.

"Literature" 2010

Pater's way of finding cultural profit in historical discontinuity.

Article Abstracts 2008

By reducing incongruent mythologies to "the sound of lyres and flutes," she strips away the vectors of causality and change that would otherwise be implicit in Pater's catalogue, replacing them with the sort of non-linear synthesis embodied in weary and delicately-tinged eyelids.

Culture and Discontinuity (in the 1840s and in Foucault) 2008