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“Art for Art’s sake”, insisted the French poet Théophile Gautier in the early 19th century. This is an attractive notion, but is it that simple? While the notion of art as a purposeless activity is widely accepted, there will always seem to be, explicitly or implicitly, a certain purpose or goal to an art work. Literature, cinema, photography, fine art, music--all of these mediums are seemingly ends in themselves but also means. They are teachers, counsellors, shamans, tools