The Cult of Beauty: The Victorian Avant-Garde, 1860–1900, hosted by the Legion of Honor (San Francisco, USA), is the first major exhibition to explore the unconventional creativity of the British Aesthetic Movement, tracing its evolution from a small circle of progressive artists and poets, through the achievements of innovative painters and architects, to its broad impact on fashion and the middle-class home.
Over 180 artworks on view express the manifold ways that avant-garde attitudes permeated Victorian material culture: the traditional high art of painting, fashionable trends in architecture and interior decoration, handmade and manufactured furnishings for the "artistic" home, art photography and new modes of dress.
The Cult of Beauty showcases the entirety of the Aesthetic Movement's output, celebrating the startling beauty and variety of creations by such artists and designers as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, James McNeill Whistler, Edward Burne-Jones, E. W. Godwin, William Morris and Christopher Dresser.
Date: until June 17.
Location: Legion Of Honor. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Lincoln Park, 34th Avenue and Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94121. USA.
Opening hours: from Tuesday to Sunday from 9.30am to 5.15pm.
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