Art for Art’s Sake
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"Art for Art’s Sake" is a notable musical number from Marc Blitzstein’s 1937 pro-labor musical "The Cradle Will Rock," reflecting its satirical and socially critical themes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Art for Art’s Sake canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Target entity: Art for Art’s Sake Context triple: [The Cradle Will Rock, hasNotableSong, Art for Art’s Sake]
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Aestheticism
Aestheticism was a late 19th-century artistic and literary movement that championed beauty, sensory experience, and “art for art’s sake” over moral or social themes.
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Les Nabis
Les Nabis were a late 19th-century group of French avant-garde artists who sought to synthesize symbolism, decorative art, and spiritual themes into a new, modern visual language.
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Essais sur l’art
Essais sur l’art is a collection of critical writings on art by French Post-Impressionist painter and theorist Émile Bernard, reflecting his aesthetic ideas and debates with contemporaries like Gauguin and Cézanne.
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Les Traditions de l’art
Les Traditions de l’art is a theoretical and critical work by French Post-Impressionist painter Émile Bernard, in which he reflects on the history, principles, and spiritual dimensions of artistic tradition.
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Barbizon school
The Barbizon school was a mid-19th-century French art movement centered on naturalistic landscape painting and rural life, which helped pave the way for Impressionism.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Art for Art’s Sake Target entity description: "Art for Art’s Sake" is a notable musical number from Marc Blitzstein’s 1937 pro-labor musical "The Cradle Will Rock," reflecting its satirical and socially critical themes.
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A.
Aestheticism
Aestheticism was a late 19th-century artistic and literary movement that championed beauty, sensory experience, and “art for art’s sake” over moral or social themes.
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B.
Les Nabis
Les Nabis were a late 19th-century group of French avant-garde artists who sought to synthesize symbolism, decorative art, and spiritual themes into a new, modern visual language.
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C.
Essais sur l’art
Essais sur l’art is a collection of critical writings on art by French Post-Impressionist painter and theorist Émile Bernard, reflecting his aesthetic ideas and debates with contemporaries like Gauguin and Cézanne.
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D.
Les Traditions de l’art
Les Traditions de l’art is a theoretical and critical work by French Post-Impressionist painter Émile Bernard, in which he reflects on the history, principles, and spiritual dimensions of artistic tradition.
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E.
Barbizon school
The Barbizon school was a mid-19th-century French art movement centered on naturalistic landscape painting and rural life, which helped pave the way for Impressionism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical number
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song ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
John Houseman
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Orson Welles ⓘ |
| associatedWork | Federal Theatre Project ⓘ |
| composer | Marc Blitzstein ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| firstPerformanceInWork | The Cradle Will Rock original 1937 production ⓘ |
| genre |
musical theatre song
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political song ⓘ satirical song ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
capitalism
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class struggle ⓘ critique of bourgeois art ⓘ labor politics ⓘ social criticism ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Marc Blitzstein ⓘ |
| movement |
left-wing political theatre
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pro-labor theatre ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critique of the slogan “art for art’s sake”
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satirical portrayal of art patrons ⓘ |
| partOfWork | The Cradle Will Rock ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1937 ⓘ |
| setInWorkContext | fictional industrial American town (Steeltown) ⓘ |
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Subject: Art for Art’s Sake Description of subject: "Art for Art’s Sake" is a notable musical number from Marc Blitzstein’s 1937 pro-labor musical "The Cradle Will Rock," reflecting its satirical and socially critical themes.
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