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European aestheticism and Spanish American modernismo
artist protagonists and the philosophy of art for art's sake
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.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.