Aestheticism, Evil, Homosexuality, and Hannibal: If Oscar Wilde Ate People by Geoff Klock

Aestheticism, Evil, Homosexuality, and Hannibal: If Oscar Wilde Ate People

Geoff Klock

182 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In late 19th century England, Oscar Wilde popularized aestheticism, also known as art-for-art's-sake - the idea that art, that beauty, should not be a vehicle for morality or truth, but an end in-and-of-itself. Rothko and Jackson Pollock enthroned...

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