The
1878 libel suit of Whistler v Ruskin, which elucidated the conflict between the newly formed aesthetic
movement and the
Victorian ideal of art, embodies the struggle between the establishment
and a new worldview. It is yet another example of the reluctance with which the
old makes way for the new. In this case, the conflict was played out on the stage of aesthetics
and morality in late Victorian England. John Ruskin represented all that
was essentially Victorian in both theory and virtue, whereas James Abbott McNeill Whistler
illustrated what was to be the vanguard of modernity in art practice and theory.
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