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James Whistler's Etchings
James Whistler is well-known for his etchings of everyday life. He advocated creating "Art for art's sake":
Art should be independent of all claptrap - should stand alone [...] and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like (Edwards, Owen April 2006, Refined Palette, Smithsonian Magazine: 29)