Aesthetic Movement
- a literary and artistic movement which flourished in England in the 1880s, devoted to 'art for art's sake' and rejecting the notion that art should have a social or moral purpose. Its chief exponents included Oscar Wilde, Max Beerbohm, Aubrey Beardsley, and others associated with the journal the Yellow Book.唯美主义运动（19世纪80年代在英格兰兴起的文学和艺术运动, 崇尚“为艺术而艺术”, 反对艺术应该有社会或道德目的的观念; 主要代表人物有奥斯卡·王尔德、马克斯·比尔博姆、奥布里·比尔兹利及其他与《黄页书》杂志有联系的人物）。