Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life: How Politics and Markets Helped Shape the Ideology and Culture of Aestheticism, 1790?1990

by Gene H. Bell-Villada

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Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life is a history of literary aestheticism from the eighteenth century to modern deconstruction. Gene H. Bell-Villada examines writings by critics, philosophers, and other writers from Europe, Latin America, and the United States. Uniting all is his conviction that "there are concrete social, economic, political, and cultural reasons for the emergence, growth, diffusion, and triumph of l'art pour l'art over the past...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0803261438

ISBN13:9780803261433

Release Date:January 1998

Publisher:Bison Books

Length:342 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.4" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

Classics Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Movements & Periods

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