![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
If you're near London, you might consider going to this exhibition at the V&A.
However, whatever you do, do not read this Guardian review of it. Why must journalists, even art journalists, peddle such dreadful cliches, which they must know are wrong if they've ever attended a single undergraduate lecture on Aestheticism? Or on the Victorian period for that matter?
And this journalist obviously wanted to annoy me personally:
'Morris was a Marxist who believed the triumph of beauty would destroy capitalism.'
No, Morris was a Marxist who believed a bloody revolution would destroy capitalism. Arrgh.
However, whatever you do, do not read this Guardian review of it. Why must journalists, even art journalists, peddle such dreadful cliches, which they must know are wrong if they've ever attended a single undergraduate lecture on Aestheticism? Or on the Victorian period for that matter?
And this journalist obviously wanted to annoy me personally:
'Morris was a Marxist who believed the triumph of beauty would destroy capitalism.'
No, Morris was a Marxist who believed a bloody revolution would destroy capitalism. Arrgh.
