Aestheticism is a skeletal movement.
== 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
 Like contemporary art, Shindler writes that aestheticism was born of "the conundrum of constituting ones life in relation to an exterior work" and that it "attempted to overcome" this problem "by subsuming artists within their work in the hope of yieldingmore than mere objectslives which could be living artworks

