ABSTRACT
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ART CRITICISM Three distinct discourses can be identified
in Victorian art criticism: the associational, the pragmatic, and the aesthetic. The first was an emotional response to the morally edifying aspects of art that was based on the eighteenth-century philosophical theories of Hume, Locke, and Hartley. The second was a more scientific method of criticism which emphasized close observation of facts. Finally, the aesthetic approach, in reaction against the literary and moral tenor of the first two branches of criticism, stressed the primacy of beauty alone.
