KnowraArt for art's sakeLinked fromLinked fromThe 17 pages that link to Art for art's sake, each with the reason it gives.All 17Broader topic 1Related 10Compared with 6Abstract artRelated: Abstract art has frequently been associated with this defense of art's independence.AestheticismRelated: This slogan condensed Aestheticism’s claim that artistic value could stand apart from utility.Langston HughesCompared with: Hughes rejected demands that Black art avoid social realities.Decadent movementRelated: It offered a direct challenge to demands that literature teach virtue or social duty.Political artCompared with: It contrasts with works that deliberately engage political struggles or public consequences.Théophile GautierRelated: Gautier became a leading French advocate of this doctrine, especially in the preface to Mademoiselle de Maupin.ParnassianismRelated: It underpins the Parnassian preference for artistic autonomy.Walter PaterRelated: Pater’s criticism helped give this principle intellectual force in Victorian Britain.Aesthetic autonomyBroader topic: This slogan states the strongest claim that art’s purposes can be self-contained.James McNeill WhistlerRelated: Whistler’s public defense of autonomous art became closely associated with this principle.Progressive Writers' MovementCompared with: The movement rejected artistic detachment when it obscured social realities.Social commentaryCompared with: This aesthetic position challenges the expectation that art should address social problems.Leconte de LisleRelated: This principle underpins the Parnassian resistance to poetry as personal confession or propaganda.Théodore de BanvilleRelated: Banville’s emphasis on poetic craft aligns with this nineteenth-century aesthetic ideal.Arundhati RoyCompared with: Roy’s essays openly connect literary work with political argument, challenging strict artistic autonomy.DidacticismCompared with: It directly opposes making instruction art’s chief purpose.Afanasy FetRelated: Fet’s poetry became a prominent example in disputes over literature’s social duties.
KnowraArt for art's sakeLinked fromLinked fromThe 17 pages that link to Art for art's sake, each with the reason it gives.All 17Broader topic 1Related 10Compared with 6Abstract artRelated: Abstract art has frequently been associated with this defense of art's independence.AestheticismRelated: This slogan condensed Aestheticism’s claim that artistic value could stand apart from utility.Langston HughesCompared with: Hughes rejected demands that Black art avoid social realities.Decadent movementRelated: It offered a direct challenge to demands that literature teach virtue or social duty.Political artCompared with: It contrasts with works that deliberately engage political struggles or public consequences.Théophile GautierRelated: Gautier became a leading French advocate of this doctrine, especially in the preface to Mademoiselle de Maupin.ParnassianismRelated: It underpins the Parnassian preference for artistic autonomy.Walter PaterRelated: Pater’s criticism helped give this principle intellectual force in Victorian Britain.Aesthetic autonomyBroader topic: This slogan states the strongest claim that art’s purposes can be self-contained.James McNeill WhistlerRelated: Whistler’s public defense of autonomous art became closely associated with this principle.Progressive Writers' MovementCompared with: The movement rejected artistic detachment when it obscured social realities.Social commentaryCompared with: This aesthetic position challenges the expectation that art should address social problems.Leconte de LisleRelated: This principle underpins the Parnassian resistance to poetry as personal confession or propaganda.Théodore de BanvilleRelated: Banville’s emphasis on poetic craft aligns with this nineteenth-century aesthetic ideal.Arundhati RoyCompared with: Roy’s essays openly connect literary work with political argument, challenging strict artistic autonomy.DidacticismCompared with: It directly opposes making instruction art’s chief purpose.Afanasy FetRelated: Fet’s poetry became a prominent example in disputes over literature’s social duties.