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421:, a worm chewing its own tail. "Rather no purpose at all than a moral purpose!"—that is the talk of mere passion. A psychologist, on the other hand, asks: what does all art do? does it not praise? glorify? choose? prefer? With all this it strengthens or weakens certain valuations. Is this merely a "moreover"? an accident? something in which the artist's instinct had no share? Or is it not the very presupposition of the artist's ability? Does his basic instinct aim at art, or rather at the sense of art, at life? at a desirability of life? Art is the great stimulus to life: how could one understand it as purposeless, as aimless, as 2285: 136: 2042: 286:
of the 16th century: "Art should be independent of all claptrap – should stand alone...and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like." Such a brusque dismissal also expressed the artist's
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We have taken it into our heads that to write a poem simply for the poem's sake ... and to acknowledge such to have been our design, would be to confess ourselves radically wanting in the true poetic dignity and force:– but the simple fact is that would we but permit ourselves to look into our own
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and "a supporter of the revolutionary cause," claims that the art for the sake of art theory would further divide the rich from the poor. Rivera goes on to say that since one of the characteristics of so called "pure art" was that it could only be appreciated by a few superior people, the art
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souls we should immediately there discover that under the sun there neither exists nor can exist any work more thoroughly dignified, more supremely noble, than this very poem, this poem per se, this poem which is a poem and nothing more, this poem written solely for the poem's sake.
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on art and creation. Senghor argued that, in "black African aesthetics," art is "functional" and that in "black Africa, 'art for art's sake' does not exist." Achebe is more scathing in his collection of essays and criticism entitled
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remark on the issue: "Am I to sit still and see other fellows pocketing two guineas apiece for stories which I can do better myself? Not me. If anyone imagines my sole aim is art for art's sake, they are cruelly deceived."
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was an empty phrase, an idle sentence. She asserted that artists had a "duty to find an adequate expression to convey it to as many souls as possible," ensuring that their works were accessible enough to be appreciated.
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When the purpose of moral preaching and of improving man has been excluded from art, it still does not follow by any means that art is altogether purposeless, aimless, senseless—in short,
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art in itself; that artistic pursuits were their own justification; and that art did not need moral justification, and indeed, was allowed to be morally neutral or
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wrote the following in which he discarded the accustomed role of art in the service of the state or official religion, which had adhered to its practice since the
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movement would strip art from its value as a social tool and ultimately make art into a currency-like item that would only be available to the rich.
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said: "There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics.
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argued that there is 'no art for art's sake', the arts always express human values, communicate core beliefs:
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of art" in bracketing off social aspects. In the Epilogue to his essay, Benjamin discusses the links between
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whom he had met in Paris, where he was friends with Albert Saint-Paul and consorted with the circle around
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Gautier was not the first nor the only one to use that phrase: it appeared in the lectures and writings of
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that 'true' art is utterly independent of any and all social values and utilitarian function, be that
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in this statement is the reliance on the artist's own eye and sensibility as the arbiter.
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literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause; they are, as
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Benjamin, Walter. 1973. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." In
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had used the term privately in an 1839 letter to his mother in which he recommended
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The explicit slogan is associated, in the history of English art and letters, with
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from the latter half of the 19th century—is a phrase that expresses the
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This article is about the English expression. For the 10cc song, see
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Schaffer, Aaron (1928). "Théophile Gautier and "L'art pour l'art"".
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Slogan for art without any didactic, moral or utilitarian function
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Beier, Ulli (2002). "Léopold Sédar Senghor: A Personal Memoir".
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in the 19th century; a slogan raised in defiance of those—from
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Germaine de Staël, George Sand, and the Victorian Woman Artist
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Martin, Joseph (1985). "Conrad and the Aesthetic Movement".
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said, cogs and wheels in the whole revolutionary machine."
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and appears in the film scroll around the roaring head of
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have both criticised the slogan as being a limited and
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was one of the first artists to translate the phrase (
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
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Bennett, Arnold (1966–1986). James G. Hepburn (ed.).
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Art for Art's Sake (song)
Art for Art's Sake (film)
[laʁpuʁlaʁ]
French
slogan
philosophy
didactic
moral
political
autotelic
Latin
Classical Latin
[ˈarsˈɡraːtiaːˈartɪs]
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Leo the Lion
motion picture

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Théophile Gautier
Victor Cousin
Benjamin Constant
The Poetic Principle
Edgar Allan Poe
bohemian
creed
John Ruskin
Communist

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