Just to be clear: I'm not an art - for - art's -
sake aesthete; I've played on Team Horace since a seventh - grade production of «El Mago de Oz» brought down the «English Only» signs in my middle school cafeteria.
Not exact matches
So Henry was no mere
aesthete or partisan of «art for art's
sake.»
If he had not been so disinclined to theorize, he might have promulgated some variation on the
aesthete's doctrine of art for art's
sake.