"Roger Kotoske's Works Art for Art's Sake"
Barbara Haddad, Denver Post, 1/24/1965
Ars Gratis artis" -- art for art's sake -- is a credo seldom expressed today -- although it's still inscribed around the head of MGM's roaring lion. Developed by artists and writers in the 19th century who had been deprived of their old aristocratic patrons and who faced instead a hostile and indifferent bourgeoisie, it was pursued in a spirit of conscious defiance...
