The aesthetics of self-invention [Texte imprimé] : Oscar Wilde to David Bowie / Shelton Waldrep, Monographie imprimée
Language: anglais.Country: EtatsUnis.Publication : Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, cop. 2004Description: 1 vol. (XXI-203 p.) : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0-8166-3417-3; 978-0-8166-3417-0; 0-8166-3418-1; 978-0-8166-3418-7.Dewey: 828/.809, 22Contents note: Wilde's romantic irony Attributing Wilde Performing Wilde Talking as performance Phenomenology of performance: David Bowie Abstract: By printing the title "Professor of Aesthetics" on his visiting cards, Oscar Wilde announced yet another transformation and perhaps the most significant of his career, proclaiming his belief that he could redesign not just his image but his very self. Shelton Waldrep explores the cultural influences at play in Wilde's life and work and his influence on the writing and performance of the twentieth century, particularly on the lives and careers of some of its most aestheticized performers: Truman Capote, Andy Warhol, David Hockney, and David Bowie. As Waldrep reveals, Wilde's fusing of art with commerce foresaw the coming century's cultural producers who would blend works of both "high art" and mass-market appeal. Whether as a gay man or as a postmodern performance artist ahead of his time, Wilde ultimately emerges here as the embodiment of the twentieth-century media-savvy artist who is both subject and object of the aesthetic and economic systems in which he is enmeshed.Bibliography: Notes bibliogr. Index..Subject - Personal Name: Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 Esthétique | Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 Et les arts du spectacle | Bowie, David, 1947- Subject - Topical Name: Modernisme (littérature) Grande-Bretagne | Esthétique 20e siècle | Arts du spectacle Grande-Bretagne | Romantisme, Grande-BretagneItem type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Prêt normal | BU Chevreul 4ème étage : Langues | Anglais | 828.415 Wilde WAL (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 0379490932 |
Notes bibliogr. Index.
Wilde's romantic irony Attributing Wilde Performing Wilde Talking as performance Phenomenology of performance: David Bowie
By printing the title "Professor of Aesthetics" on his visiting cards, Oscar Wilde announced yet another transformation and perhaps the most significant of his career, proclaiming his belief that he could redesign not just his image but his very self. Shelton Waldrep explores the cultural influences at play in Wilde's life and work and his influence on the writing and performance of the twentieth century, particularly on the lives and careers of some of its most aestheticized performers: Truman Capote, Andy Warhol, David Hockney, and David Bowie. As Waldrep reveals, Wilde's fusing of art with commerce foresaw the coming century's cultural producers who would blend works of both "high art" and mass-market appeal. Whether as a gay man or as a postmodern performance artist ahead of his time, Wilde ultimately emerges here as the embodiment of the twentieth-century media-savvy artist who is both subject and object of the aesthetic and economic systems in which he is enmeshed