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aestheticism: a standalone construct

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Literary history

the nineteenth-century creed that art is valued for the intensity of aesthetic experience it gives, not for moral or useful ends.

In literary history, aestheticism refers to the nineteenth-century creed that art is valued for the intensity of aesthetic experience it gives, not for moral or useful ends. This meaning comes from Pater (1873) in Studies in the history of the Renaissance.[1]

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Pater, W. (1873). Studies in the history of the Renaissance. Macmillan. Open Library record

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