European aestheticism and Spanish American modernismo : artist protagonists and the philosophy of art for art's sake / Kelly Comfort.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Comfort, Kelly, 1975-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Art for art's sake (Movement).

Art nouveau.

Physical Description:

vii, 180 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

This study examines the changing role of art and artist during the turn-of-the-century period, offering a consideration of the multiple dichotomies of art and life, aesthetics and economics, production and consumption, and centre and periphery.

Contents:

Introduction: Redefining the role of art and the artist at the turn of the century

pt. 1. The artist avoids "art for life's sake." The artist as critic and liar: the unreal and amoral as art in Oscar Wilde

The artist and creative receptor: the subjective impression as art in José Asunción Silva

pt. 2. The artist protests "art for the market's sake." The artist as elitist taster: the unprofaned and unconsumed as art in J.-K. Huysmans

The artist as creator not producer: the unsold and unappreciated as art in Rubén Darío

pt. 3. The artist promotes "Life for art's sake." The artist as dandy-aesthete: the self as art in Oscar Wilde and Thomas Mann

The artist as Dandy-Flâneur: the world as art in manuel Gutiérrez Nájera and Julián del Casal

Conclusion: Reconsidering the relationship between art and life, form and content, poetry and prose.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-171) and index.

ISBN:

9780230278097

0230278094

OCLC:

751824141

Publisher Number:

9786613159281