ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -George Bernard Shaw as a Dramatist: “For art’s sake’ alone I would not face the toil of writing a single sentence”

Detailed explanation-2: -The Literary World and Théophile Gautier The Swiss writer Benjamin Constant is thought to have been the first person to use the phrase “art for art’s sake, ” in an 1804 diary entry. But the term is most often credited to the French philosopher Victor Cousin, who publicized it in his lectures of 1817-18.

Detailed explanation-3: -This short statement of Oscar Wilde in his Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) expresses one of the central aspects of the idea of Art for Art’s Sake: art shall have no other aim than being art and it should be protected from subordination to any moral, didactic, social or political purpose.