本文认为“为艺术而艺术”这一概念在五四前后的中国文坛上经历了由浪漫的变形到唯美的复活的演变过程。文章通过介绍其外国文学渊源,以及对它与创造社、浅草社、弥洒社和清华文学社、与原人生派作家周作人、俞平伯等复杂关系的再探讨 ,显示出五四前后十多年间不同作家、文艺团体对这一概念的不同态度及取舍 ,对我们重新认识这一概念及有关作家文艺思想的复杂性有着重要意义 This article argues that the concept of “art for art” has undergone a process of evolution from romantic deformation to aesthetic revival in the Chinese literary world around the May Fourth Movement. After introducing the origins of foreign literature and its complicated relations with Chuangshe, Asakusa, Moseisha and Tsinghua Literature Society, and writers such as Zhou Zuoren and Yu Pingbai, the writers of the original school of life, the article shows that over the past decade or so The different attitudes and choices of different writers and writers and artists about this concept are of great significance for us to re-understand this concept and the complexity of the writers and artists’ ideas