LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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Produce works of art that were meaningless
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Reject artistic production that was obligatorily moral in character
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Avoid all forms of prose
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Make art profitable above all else
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Detailed explanation-1: -Summary of Art for Art’s Sake Taken from the French, the term “l’art pour l’art, ” (Art for Art’s Sake) expresses the idea that art has an inherent value independent of its subject-matter, or of any social, political, or ethical significance.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Rebellious Nature of Art For Art’s Sake The original phrase l’art pour l’art was coined by the French poet Théophile Gautier (1811–1872), who used it in the preface to his 1835 book, Mademoiselle de Maupin.
Detailed explanation-3: -A slogan meaning that the beauty of the fine arts is reason enough for pursuing them-that art does not have to serve purposes taken from politics, religion, economics, and so on. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edgar Allan Poe, and Oscar Wilde argued for the doctrine of art for art’s sake.
Detailed explanation-4: -While late nineteenth century Aestheticism was a desire to combine art and life and life and beauty, “Art for art’s sake” was an aspect of aesthetics, a Kantian derived concept, completely divorced from any specific work of art or from any particular art movement.