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Art for art's sake

'Art for art's sake' emerges as a claim that creative work needs no justification beyond its own existence—not morally uplifting, not commercially useful, not socially redemptive. Though often misread as frivolous, it was actually a radical assertion that human meaning-making deserves space outside systems of profit or propaganda.

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