Oscar Wilde On Dress

Author : Oscar Wilde,John Cooper
Publisher : CSM Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780989532716

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Oscar Wilde on Dress (ebook) by Oscar Wilde,John Cooper Pdf

Including The Philosophy Of Dress by Oscar Wilde. The recent print version was the first this work had been for the first time it had been published in 128 Years, and in book form for the first time ever. Now this is the first ebook.The work now forms the centerpiece of this unique collection of Wilde's writings on dress. As a compendium this book also includes several rarely published period articles and letters by Wilde on dress and fashion, along with a related exchange of correspondence that forms an instructional discourse. In addition there are generously annotated and illustrated chapters that analyze the importance of dress in the historical context of the writing career of Oscar Wilde, and a comprehensive review of the influences, trends, characters and source material that informed the development of his dress philosophy.The whole constitutes a thorough examination of a previously overlooked aspect in the Wilde canon, which should prove to be of interest not only to Wildean scholars, but also to anyone who enjoys his style of writing. Oscar Wilde continues to be favorably reappraised as a one of the most culturally avant garde tastemakers of the late nineteenth century. In an ever fashion-conscious world it is fitting that the themes explored, like the author himself, are still relevant. In this respect the book will also be of historical value to fashion students, historians, and practitioners.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : John Cooper
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-30
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN : 0989532704

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Oscar Wilde on Dress by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Including The Philosophy Of Dress by Oscar Wilde. In print for the first time in 128 Years, and in book form for the first time ever. The work now forms the centerpiece of this unique collection of Wilde's writings on dress. As a compendium this book also includes several rarely published period articles and letters by Wilde on dress and fashion, along with a related exchange of correspondence that forms an instructional discourse. In addition there are generously annotated and illustrated chapters that analyze the importance of dress in the historical context of the writing career of Oscar Wilde, and a comprehensive review of the influences, trends, characters and source material that informed the development of his dress philosophy. The whole constitutes a thorough examination of a previously overlooked aspect in the Wilde canon, which should prove to be of interest not only to Wildean scholars, but also to anyone who enjoys his style of writing. Oscar Wilde continues to be favorably reappraised as a one of the most culturally avant garde tastemakers of the late nineteenth century. In an ever fashion-conscious world it is fitting that the themes explored, like the author himself, are still relevant. In this respect the book will also be of historical value to fashion students, historians, and practitioners.

Author : Joel H. Kaplan,Sheila Stowell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Design
ISBN : 052149950X

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Theatre and Fashion by Joel H. Kaplan,Sheila Stowell Pdf

This is the first book to explore the fascinating relationship between theatre, fashion, and society in the period from the 1890s to the Great War.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788728103999

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The Philosophy of Dress by Oscar Wilde Pdf

"Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed, what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months!" ‘The Philosophy of Fashion’ is the article that elevated Wilde from the position of a commercial journalist to a writer of repute. In this essay, Wilde dismantles the concept of fashion, with his characteristic wit and biting social criticism. Funny and fascinating, ‘The Philosophy of Fashion’ is a wry look at social conventions, through the eyes of a dedicated dandy. For anyone with an interest in fashion or works commenting on societal trends. Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish novelist, poet, playwright, and wit. He was an advocate of the Aesthetic movement, which extolled the virtues of art for the sake of art. During his career, Wilde wrote nine plays, including ‘The Importance of Being Earnest,’ ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan,’ and ‘A Woman of No Importance,’ many of which are still performed today. His only novel, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ was adapted for the silver screen, in the film, ‘Dorian Gray,’ starring Ben Barnes and Colin Firth. In addition, Wilde wrote 43 poems, and seven essays. His life was the subject of a film, starring Stephen Fry.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252034725

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Oscar Wilde in America by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Better known in 1882 as a cultural icon than a serious writer, Oscar Wilde was brought to North America for a major lecture tour on Aestheticism and the decorative arts. With characteristic aplomb, he adopted the role as the ambassador of Aestheticism, and he tried out a number of phrases, ideas, and strategies that ultimately made him famous as a novelist and playwright. This exceptional volume cites all ninety-one of Wilde's interviews and contains transcripts of forty-eight of them, and it also includes his lecture on his travels in America.

Author : Mari Grinde Arntzen
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-15
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781780234625

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Dress Code by Mari Grinde Arntzen Pdf

As Oscar Wilde once wrote, “Fashion is a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months.” And yet it serves to make us beautiful, or at least make us feel beautiful. In this book, Mari Grinde Arntzen asks how and why this is—how can fashion simultaneously attract us to its glamour and repel us with its superficiality and how being called “fashionable” can be at once a compliment and an insult. Arntzen guides us through the major figures and brands of today’s fashion industry, showing how they shape us and in turn why we love to be shaped by them. She examines both everyday, affordable “fast fashion” brands, as well as the luxury market, to show how fashion commands a powerful influence on every socioeconomic level of our society. Stepping into our closets with us, she thinks about what happens when we get dressed: why fashion can make us feel powerful, beautiful, and original at the same time that it forces us into conformity. Stripping off the layers of the world’s fifth largest industry, garment by garment, she holds fashion up as a phenomenon, business, and art, exploring the questions it forces us to ask about the body, image, celebrity, and self-obsession. Ultimately, Arntzen asks the most direct question: what is fashion? How has it taken such a powerful hold on the world, forever propelling us toward its concepts of beauty?

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307757685

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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Flamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzling personality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparkling comedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever written for the English stage. Here in one volume are his immensely popular novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray; his last literary work, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” a product of his own prison experience; and four complete plays: Lady Windermere’s Fan, his first dramatic success, An Ideal Husband, which pokes fun at conventional morality, The Importance of Being Earnest, his finest comedy, and Salomé, a portrait of uncontrollable love originally written in French and faithfully translated by Richard Ellmann. Every selection appears in its entirety–a marvelous collection of outstanding works by the incomparable Oscar Wilde, who’s been aptly called “a lord of language” by Max Beerbohm.

Author : Joseph Bristow
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319604114

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Oscar Wilde and the Cultures of Childhood by Joseph Bristow Pdf

This is the first collection of critical essays that explores Oscar Wilde’s interest in children’s culture, whether in relation to his famous fairy stories, his life as a caring father to two small boys, his place as a defender of children’s rights within the prison system, his fascination with youthful beauty, and his theological contemplation of what it means to be a child in the eyes of God. The collection also examines the ways in which Wilde’s works—not just his fairy stories—have been adapted for young audiences.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1001958028

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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Author : Vincent Roppatte,Sherry S. Cohen
Publisher : Saint Martin's Griffin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1986-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0312001525

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The Looks That Men Love by Vincent Roppatte,Sherry S. Cohen Pdf

Author : Emer O'Sullivan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781608199884

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The Fall of the House of Wilde by Emer O'Sullivan Pdf

The first biography of Oscar Wilde that places him within the context of his family and social and historical milieu--a compelling volume that finally tells the whole story. It's widely known that Oscar Wilde was precociously intellectual, flamboyant, and hedonistic--but lesser so that he owed these characteristics to his parents. Oscar's mother, Lady Jane Wilde, rose to prominence as a political journalist, advocating a rebellion against colonialism in 1848. Proud, involved, and challenging, she opened a salon and was known as the most scintillating hostess of her day. She passed on her infectious delight in the art of living to Oscar, who drank it in greedily. His father, Sir William Wilde, was acutely conscious of injustices of the social order. He laid the foundations for the Celtic cultural renaissance in the belief that culture would establish a common ground between the privileged and the poor, Protestant and Catholic. But Sir William was also a philanderer, and when he stood accused of sexually assaulting a young female patient, the scandal and trial sent shockwaves through Dublin society. After his death, the Wildes decamped to London where Oscar burst irrepressibly upon the scene. The one role that didn't suit him was that of Victorian husband, as his wife, Constance, was to discover. For beneath his swelling head was a self-destructive itch: a lifelong devourer of attention, Oscar was unable to recognize when the party was over. Ultimately, his trial for indecency heralded the death of decadence--and his own. In a major repositioning of our first modern celebrity, The Fall of the House of Wilde identifies Oscar Wilde as a member of one of the most dazzling Irish American families of Victorian times, and places him in the broader social, political, and religious context. It is a fresh and perceptive account of one of the most prominent characters of the late nineteenth century.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : English poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:32044090302621

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Author : Mary Warner Blanchard
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0300074603

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Oscar Wilde's America by Mary Warner Blanchard Pdf

In 1882 Oscar Wilde toured America as the "Apostle of Aestheticism". The nation was still shaken by the Civil War, and Wilde's message of regeneration through art and beauty seemed to open new horizons. In this first cultural history of the aesthetic movement in the U.S., Mary Blanchard provides an imaginative account of a neglected dimension of our history. 221 illustrations.

Author : Eleanor Fitzsimons
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1468315021

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Wilde's Women by Eleanor Fitzsimons Pdf

Silver-medal Winner of the 2018 IPPY award for Biography The first book to tell the story of the female family members, friends, and colleagues who traded witticisms with Wilde, who gave him access to vital publicity, and to whose ideas he gave expression through his social comedies

Author : Nicholas Frankel
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789144222

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The Invention of Oscar Wilde by Nicholas Frankel Pdf

“One should either wear a work of art, or be a work of art,” Oscar Wilde once declared. In The Invention of Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel explores Wilde’s self-creation as a “work of art” and a carefully constructed cultural icon. Frankel takes readers on a journey through Wilde’s inventive, provocative life, from his Irish origins—and their public erasure—through his challenges to traditional concepts of masculinity and male sexuality, his marriage and his affairs with young men, including his great love Lord Alfred Douglas, to his criminal conviction and final years of exile in France. Along the way, Frankel takes a deep look at Wilde’s writings, paradoxical wit, and intellectual convictions.