Art For Art’s Sake In The Old Stone Age

Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics 6 (1):1-23 (2009)
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Abstract

Is there a sensible version of the slogan “Art for art’s sake”? If there is, does it apply to anything? I believe that the answers to these questions are Yes and Yes. A positive answer to the first question alone would not be of interest; an intelligible claim without application does not do us much good. It’s the positive answer to the second question which is, I think, more important and perhaps surprising, since I claim to find art for art’s sake at a time well before most authorities would allow that there was any art at all. But I begin more recently than that.

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Greg Currie Nj
University of York

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