==History== `L`art pour l`art` (translated as `art for art`s sake`) is credited to Théophile Gautier (1811–1872), who was the first to adopt the phrase as a slogan. Gautier was not, however, the first to write those words: they appear in the works of Victor Cousin, Benjamin Constant, and Edgar Allan Poe. For example, Poe argues in his es...
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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. The phrase ... [9 related articles]
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Artistic theory; see aestheticism
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