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"𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗿𝘁" is an international contemporary art movement. Akin to the 19th-century slogan , or "l'art pour l'art," the work of art is seen as a self-sufficient product independent from the personality of its creator.
In reaction to the Romantic movement appeared the Parnassus movement, represented in particular by 𝗧𝗵é𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗿 who theorised the doctrine of "𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗿𝘁'𝘀 𝘀𝗮𝗸𝗲". It is a conception of art as being purely aesthetic and which claims no usefulness other than its beauty.
The phrase "𝗹'𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹'𝗮𝗿𝘁" ('art for art's sake') had been floating around the intellectual circles of Paris since the beginning of the 19th century, but it was 𝗧𝗵é𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗿 (1811-1872), who first fully articulated its metaphysical meaning (as we now understand it) in the prefaces of his 1832 poetry volume, 𝘈𝘭𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘴, and 1835 novel, 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦 𝘥𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘶𝘱𝘪𝘯.
𝗚𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗿 was not the first nor the only one to use that phrase: it appeared in the lectures and writings of 𝗩𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻 and 𝗛𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗶-𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗷𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗾𝘂𝗲 (25 October 1767 - 8 December 1830), or simply 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗷𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁. In his essay "𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘦" (1850), 𝗘𝗱𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗔𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝗲 ( né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) argues:
