Art for art's sake Art for art's sake "Art for art's sake" is the usual English rendering of a French slogan from the early 19th century, "l'art pour l'art", and expresses a philosophy that the intrinsic value of art, and the only "true" art, is divorced from any didactic, moral, or utilitarian function. Such works are sometimes described as "autotelic", from the Greek "autoteles", "complete in itself", a concept that has been expanded to embrace "inner-directed" or "self-motivated" human beings. The term is sometimes used commercially. A Latin version of this phrase ("ARS GRATIA ARTIS") is used as a motto by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and appears
ARTIS International "Challenges Researching Terrorism from the Field" Using academic publications as a bedrock of the ARTIS research, fellows also frequently publish findings to more general audiences in major publications. Notable publications which have been driven through ARTIS International research include Terrorism: The Lessons of Barcelona, Paris: The War ISIS Wants, What Makes a Terrorist, How Spain Misunderstood the Catalan Independence Movement, Mindless Terrorists? The Truth about ISIS is Much Worse, ISIS After the Caliphate, ISIS: The Durability of Chaos, Why We Talk to Terrorists, and Give Palestine's Unity Government a Chance. ARTIS fellows have long looked at the behavioral dimensions of