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art for art's sake

noun

Etymology

Calque of French l'art pour l'art, a phrase credited to Théophile Gautier. See the Wikipedia article for more.

  1. derived from l'art pour l'art

Definitions

  1. Art with no function

    Art with no function; whose only purpose is beauty.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for art for art's sake. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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