Concept

Art for art's sake

Overview

art without any didactic, moral, or utilitarian function

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Art for art's sake

• Thomas Carlyle
• Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea
• Petre P. Negulescu

Related ideas

• French language
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Fascism
• Thomas Carlyle
• Marxists Internet Archive
• Victor Cousin
• Latin
• Eurocentrism
• Marxism
• Mao Zedong
• Walter Benjamin
• Politics
• Futurism
• Photography
• Counter-Reformation
• Romanticism
• Chinua Achebe
• Theology
• Walter Pater
• William Morris
• Charles Baudelaire
• Didacticism
• Socialist realism
• Twilight of the Idols

Opposing perspectives

• History of art

Place in the tradition

Part of Aesthetics.

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