Walter Pater
The Aesthetic Moment

Table of Contents

Foreword
Part I. Introduction
Section 1. Pater Criticism
Section 2. Historical Preliminaries:
1. Art as creation
2. Art as mimesis
Part II. Autonomous Art
Section 3. The Starting Point:
1. Scepticism
2. The essay
3. Defining human existence
4. Expression
Section 4. Defining Art:
1. 'Art for art's sake'
2. Impressionism
3. Style
Section 5. The Problem of Orientation:
1. Beauty
2. 'Postscript'
Part III. Art and History
Section 6. What Is History?:
1. Hegelian schematism
2. Historicity
3. 'House Beautiful'
Section 7. The Limits of Historical Legitimation:
1. Plato and Platonism
2. Glaston de Latour
Part IV. Art and Myth
Section 8. The Ancient Gods:
1. Cult and ritual
2. 'The myth of Demeter and Persephone'
3. 'A study of Dionysis'
Section 9. The Limits of Mythical Legitimation:
1. 'Apollo in Picardy'
2. Pater and Nietzche
Part V. The Aesthetic Existence
Section 10. Marius the Epicurean:
1. The form
2. The problem
Section 11. Imaginary Portraits:
1. The form
2. 'A Prince of Court Painters'
3. Denys l'Auxerrois'
4. 'Sebastian van Storck'
5. 'Duke Carl of Rosenmold'
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Biographical addendum
Index of names
Index of subjects.

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