ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which period has the theme “arts for the art’s sake”?
A
The Medieval Period
B
The Renaissance Period
C
The Victorianism
D
The Modernism
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The idea of Art for Art’s sake has its origins in nineteenth-century France, where it became associated with Parisian artists, writers, and critics, including Théophile Gautier and Charles Baudelaire.

Detailed explanation-2: -"Art for the sake of art” became a bohemian creed in the 19th century; a slogan raised in defiance of those-from John Ruskin to the much later Communist advocates of socialist realism-who thought that the value of art was to serve some moral or didactic purpose.

Detailed explanation-3: -1860-1975. Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era.

Detailed explanation-4: -art for art’s sake, a slogan translated from the French l’art pour l’art, which was coined in the early 19th century by the French philosopher Victor Cousin.

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