单词 | art for art's sake |
释义 | > as lemmasart for art's sake art for art's sake n. (also art for art, art for the sake of art, etc.) [originally after French l'art pour l'art (B. Constant 1804); the Latin motto ars gratia artis is after English] art considered as an end in itself. Cf. art-for-arter n. and art-for-art's-saker n.In quot. 1824 art may perhaps be read in the sense ‘artifice’, ‘dissimulation’, but in later use it is chiefly in the sense ‘artistic and other creative pursuits or products’ (as in the French use in quot. 1804). In the 19th cent. the phrase was adopted as a slogan, esp. by artists drawing a distinction between themselves and artists of previous generations whose work, directed by patrons, often had utilitarian, religious, or didactic ends. ΚΠ 1824 S. E. Brydges Gnomica lxi. 144 The Public..loves art for art's sake; and delights in the glaring marks of that, of which the principal merit lies in concealing itself. 1837 London & Westm. Rev. Jan. 518 The theories of ‘art for art's sake’, the projects of renovation in the language of poetry, were still dormant. 1839 W. M. Thackeray Let. in A. T. Ritchie Chapters from Mem. (1895) ix Please God we shall begin, ere long, to love art for art's sake. 1872 A. C. Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. Sept. 257 The well-known formula of art for art's sake..has, like other doctrines, a true side to it, and an untrue. 1920 B. Russell Pract. & Theory Bolshevism iv. 48 There it stands, this old art, the purest monument to the nullity of the art-for-art's-sake doctrine. 1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xvi. 291 We're frankly missionaries, not an art for art concern. 1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier xii. 243 Our leading writers, who a dozen years ago were art for art's saking for all they were worth..are now taking a definite political standpoint. 1942 Burlington Mag. May 115/1 The first exponents of ‘art for art’ did not, as do their descendants, uphold the claims of the senses abstractly and in isolation. 1948 J. W. Aldridge in Penguin New Writing 35 115 Ulysses represents the extreme of the art-for-art's-sake doctrine. 1999 P. Curtis Sculpture 1900–1945 vii. 219 A modernist interest in art for art's sake, removed from the literary symbolism of the late nineteenth century. < as lemmas |
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