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

Art for Art's Sake and Literary Lifeis 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 two centuries."Bell-Villada, Gene H. is the author of 'Art for Art's Sake & Literary Life How Politics and Markets Helped Shape the Ideology & Culture of Aestheticism 1790-1990' with ISBN 9780803212602 and ISBN 0803212607.