l'art pour l'art (English: l'art pour l'art)

Japanese: l'art pour l'art(英語表記)lartpourlart
l'art pour l'art (English: l'art pour l'art)

...In other words, this concept originated in the 17th century and became common in the 18th century, and is linked to the trend of praising classical beauty at the time (neoclassicism). During this period, attempts were made to define beauty as a sensory value, and a clear distinction was made between natural beauty and artistic beauty, with the latter being praised as the product of the human spirit (GWF Hegel). Pure art that has no purpose other than the expression of beauty, so-called "art for art's sake" (named by V. Cousin), was considered to be true art. The concept of art here actually originated around this time, and the words ars (Latin), art, art (French, English), arte (Italian), and Kunst (German) that have been used since the Middle Ages were used as they were, but were given new meanings. ...

From Aestheticism

… Aestheticism since the 19th century has been constantly moving back and forth between the two poles of the world of conceptual beauty and the devilish infatuation with sensual beauty, that is, decadence. This began with French writers Gautier and Baudelaire, who influenced Swinburne. The former was known as an advocate of the so-called "art supremacy," or "l'art pour l'art" (named by V. Cousin in 1845), and advocated an autonomous beauty that transcends utility. Later, in Literary Portraits and Reminiscences (1881), he defined decadence as a style as "art that has reached the highest degree of maturity, that struggles to express the vague and difficult to grasp, that seeks to convey the dying confessions of corrupt passions and the delusions of delusion on the verge of madness," showing the pinnacle that aestheticism had reached. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "l'art pour l'art" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…つまりこの概念は17世紀に発生し18世紀に一般化したものであり,当時の古典美礼賛の風潮(新古典主義)と結びついている。この時代には,感覚的価値としての美の定義が試みられ,自然美と芸術美が峻別されて両者のうち後者が人間精神の所産として優位にあるものとしてたたえられ(G.W.F.ヘーゲル),美の表現以外のものを目的としない純粋な芸術いわゆる〈芸術のための芸術l’art pour l’art〉(V.クーザンが命名)こそ真の芸術であるとされた。ここでいう芸術という概念も実はこのころ発生したのであり,語としては中世以来のアルスars(ラテン語),アール,アートart(フランス語,英語),アルテarte(イタリア語),クンストKunst(ドイツ語)がそのまま用いられて,それに新しい意味づけがされたのである。…

【唯美主義】より

… 19世紀以来の唯美主義は観念的美の世界と悪魔的な官能美への惑溺,すなわちデカダンスdécadenceの二極を絶えず往復しているが,これはスウィンバーンに影響を与えたフランスの文学者ゴーティエやボードレールに始まる。前者は,いわゆる〈芸術至上主義〉,すなわち〈芸術のための芸術l’art pour l’art〉(命名は1845年,V.クーザンによる)の唱道者として知られ,効用性を超越した自律的な美を主張した。のちに彼は《文学的肖像と回想》(1881)で,様式としてのデカダンスを〈このうえない成熟に達した芸術であり,輪郭がきわめて曖昧(あいまい)でつかみにくいものを表現しようと格闘し,腐敗した情熱の死にぎわの告白や妄執のもたらす狂気寸前の幻覚を伝えようとするもの〉と定義,唯美主義の到達した極点を示した。…

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出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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