European Aestheticism and Spanish American Modernismo: Artist Protagonists and the Philosophy of Art for Art's Sake by K. Comfort
Locating a shared interest in the philosophy of art for art's sake in aestheticism and modernismo , this study examines the changing role of art and artist during the turn-of-the-century period, offering a consideration of the multiple dichotomies of art and life, aesthetics and economics, production and consumption, and center and periphery.