Richard Redgrave
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"It also identified high art with non-functional objects. For Cockerell, in order to be a truly disinterested vehicle of artistic ideas, a genre had to be severed from perceivable use-value. For this reason, he positions architecture alongside the decorative arts. For Redgrave, utility was irrelevant. The intention behind the creation of the object was the key to its status as art. Using a position usually associated with John Ruskin, he was arguing that an was a quality that could be applied to any ..." --The Culture of Craft, Peter Dormer, 1997 |
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Richard Redgrave Template:Post-nominals (1840) Template:Post-nominals (1851) (30 April 1804 in Pimlico, London – 14 December 1888 in Kensington, London) was an English landscape artist, genre painter and administrator.