Cultures of Aestheticism
January 28–29, 2011 at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
This conference will bring together scholars based in divergent disciplines that look at the development of the ideal of “art for art’s sake” in literature, the history of art, craft, and design, philosophy, and critical theory. Papers will address such areas as post-Kantian inquiries into aesthetic judgment; the emergence of the Arts and Crafts Movement; the influence of Symbolisme on aestheticism and Decadence in Britain and America; and legacy of l’art pour l’art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in different geo-political contexts.