id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6793 Aestheticism - Wikipedia .html text/html 3172 454 62 Aestheticism challenged the values of mainstream Victorian culture, as many Victorians believed that literature and art fulfilled important ethical roles.[4] Writing in The Guardian, Fiona McCarthy states, "the aesthetic movement stood in stark and sometimes shocking contrast to the crass materialism of Britain in the 19th century."[5] By the 1890s, decadence, a term with origins in common with aestheticism, was in use as an aesthetic term across Europe.[4] Aesthetic movement in decorative arts[edit] Christopher Dresser, a student and later Professor at the school worked with Owen Jones on The Grammar of Ornament, as well as on the 1863 decoration of The Oriental Courts (Chinese, Japanese, and Indian) at the South Kensington Museum, advanced the search for a new style with his two publications The Art of Decorative Design 1862, and Principles of Design 1873. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6793.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6793.txt