In Our Time: The Decadent MovementSeries 1, episode 10Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the British phase of the Decadent Movement that spread across Europe in the mid-19th and early 20th centuries. Influenced by Charles Baudelaire and by Walter Pater, these Decadents rejected the mainstream Victorian view that art needed a moral purpose, and valued instead the intense sensations art provoked, celebrating art for art's sake Click to see when In Our Time, The Decadent Movement is coming up on UK TV Cast (unconfirmed)
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