Art For Art's Sake Analysis

For many years, people have argued about that art is art 's sake or art is public 's sake. Actually, art for art 's sake, a slogan translated from the French I 'art pour I 'art, was coined in the early 19th century by the French philosopher Victor Cousin. Edgar Allen Poe argues that in his essay: ' 'We have taken it into our heads that to write a poem simply for the poem 's sake [...] and to acknowledge such to have been our design, would be to confess ourselves radically wanting in the true poetic dignity and force: – but the simple fact is that would we but permit ourselves to look into our own souls we should immediately there discover that under the sun there neither exists nor can exist any work more thoroughly dignified, more supremely noble, than this very poem, this poem per se, this poem which is a poem and nothing more, this poem written solely for the poem 's sake. ' '
Art for art 's sake is held by many artists and writers, especially those associated with aestheticism. According to them, art needs no justification, it needs serve no political, didactic or any themes. In addition, in the 19th century Oscar Wilde attended to this belief and he states: ' 'A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes

' ' Contrary to what is believed, art should not stand alone because it has variety functions about society. Actually, art depends on society because society creates art, art does not create society. Also, art is not independent because it clearly depends on society and goes on like this for many years. Finally, art does not have to be artistic way because the important subject that whether art be useful for society or