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5 giorni fa · Appunto di Letteratura inglese sulle caratteristiche dell'Aestheticism, la biografia, le opere, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" di Wilde.
Aestheticism, late 19th-century European arts movement which centred on the doctrine that art exists for the sake of its beauty alone, and that it need serve no political, didactic, or other purpose. The movement began in reaction to prevailing utilitarian social philosophies and to what was.
The emergence of narcissism in Dorian and its correlation with his newly adopted aesthetic philosophy is integral to Wilde’s novel as it emphasizes the frequent hostility between aestheticism and morality that Wilde cautions against.
In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde, regarding myriad aspects of life, comes up with commendable aesthetic notions just before he serves on the table, as to them, direly cynical...
17 set 2020 · Close to Theophile Gautier’s Art for Art’s sake credo, Aestheticism asserts the necessity for Art to emancipate itself from educational purposes and moral significance: “the sphere of Art and the sphere of Ethics are absolutely distinct and separate”, Wilde declares in The Critic as Artist [4].
21 nov 2023 · Oscar Wilde was a proponent of Aestheticism's idea that art is for art's sake. He was also critical of its pitfalls, as evidenced in The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Oscar Wilde emerged in late nineteenth century London as the living embodiment of the Aesthetic movement. He won fame as a dramatist, poet and novelist whose ideas on art, beauty and personal freedom formed a formidable challenge to Victorian puritanicalism.
