Baudelaire's "art for art's sake" ("l'art pour l'art")
a formulation which "arose from the artist's determination not to produce commodities in a world where everything becomes a saleable commodity" (Fischer, quoted by Prevost, 169)
> from Edwin Prevost's No Sound Is Innocent: AMM and the Practice of Self-Invention (1995)
> tagged with #capitalism, #art
> created March 17, 2026 at 9:39:34 AM
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