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Aestheticism, Evil, Homosexuality, and Hannibal - If Oscar Wilde Ate People (Hardcover)
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Aestheticism, Evil, Homosexuality, and Hannibal - If Oscar Wilde Ate People (Hardcover)
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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 the idea,
creating paintings that are barely graded panels of color or wild
splashes. Today, pop culture is aestheticism's true heir, from the
perfect charismatic emptiness of Ocean's Eleven to the
hyper-choreographed essentially balletic movements in the best
martial arts movies. But aestheticism has a dark core, one that
Social Justice Activists are now gathering to combat, revealing the
damaging ideology reflected in or concealed by our most beloved pop
culture icons. Taking Bryan Fuller's television version of Hannibal
"The Cannibal" Lecter as its main text - and taking Zizek-style
illustrative detours into Malcolm in the Middle, Dark Knight Rises,
Harry Potter, Interview with a Vampire, Dexter and more - this book
marshals Walter Pater, Camille Paglia, Nietzsche, the Marquis de
Sade, Kant and Plato, as well as Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake,
Baudelaire, Beckett, Wallace Stevens and David Mamet to argue that
Fuller's show is a deceptively brilliant advance of aestheticism,
both in form and content - one that investigates how deeply
art-for-art's-sake, and those of us who consciously or
unconsciously worship at its teat, are necessarily entwined with
evil.
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