Beauty & Art - A Collection of Essays

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Violet Paget (1856-1935), also known under the pseudonym Vernon Lee, was a French-born British writer famous for her supernatural fiction and contributions to the field of aesthetics. She also wrote more than a dozen books on a variety of subjects ranging from music to travel, and today she is best remembered for her original ideas and amusing use of irony. This volume contains a fantastic collection of Paget’s best essays related to art or beauty that will appeal to those with a keen interest in aesthetics. Contents include: The Use of Beauty , A Psychological Art Fancy , A Study of Artistic Personality , Beauty and Sanity , Art and Usefulness , Tuscan Sculpture , and The Beautiful - An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics . Other notable works by this author include: The Prince of the Hundred Soups: A Puppet Show in Narrative (1883), The Countess of Albany (1884), and Miss Brown (1884). Read & Co. Great Essays is proudly publishing this brand new collection of essays complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.