Aestheticism values aesthetics over socio-political themes.
 The maxim "art for art's sake," identifying art or beauty as the primary element in other branches of the Aesthetic Movement, especially fine art, cannot apply in this context
== Aesthetic literature ==The British decadent writers were much influenced by the Oxford professor Walter Pater and his essays published during 186768, in which he stated that life had to be lived intensely, with an ideal of beauty

