Tony Walker

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15,273 appearances 26 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 2d ago

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Classic Ghost Stories · The Mummy's Foot by Theophile Gautier · 18 Sep 2026 podcast

And then in the mid century he was a big figure in the Paris art world and he became uh chairman of uh the uh Societe National de Beaux-Arts, so the National Society for the Beautiful Arts, uh and uh you know, he was you know podcast-host

uh associated with painters, Del Croix-Manet, uh various people like that. podcast-host

In his creative writing he wrote poetry fiction and um podcast-host

wrote about the ballet. podcast-host

So in poetry moved from early romantic to the sculpted miniatures uh in eighteen uh between eighteen fifty two and eighteen seventy two sculpted miniatures of Emo Ekame, a book which made him a leader of the Parnasssian school, form obsessed, antidactic, deliberately cold in its worship of beauty. podcast-host

Um he came up with the phrase Arts for Arts. podcast-host

sake, and he helped popularize in the scandalous preface to his novel 1835 novel Mademoiselle de Maupin, where he interested insisted that true art needs no moral, religious or practical justification. podcast-host

And this idea for Art for Art's sake, you know basically podcast-host

We can we can have give it a grand podcast-host

Uh podcast-host

And and and I hear this a lot from visual artists. podcast-host

It it seemed almost like a holy thing. podcast-host

It's like a uh it's a it's a sacred mission to create art for its own sake as some kind of uh transcendental uh podcast-host

theophany in in the modern world. podcast-host

It brings not necessarily because it has anything to do with God, although in some artists it does, I suppose. podcast-host

But you know, there is something transcendental, suprehuman, uh, that it that brightens and enlightens the world by its very existence. podcast-host

So art podcast-host

enhances the world. podcast-host

Now podcast-host

That that's the grand version of it. podcast-host

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