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.
Shelton Waldrep is associate professor of English at the
University of Southern Maine. He is the coauthor of Inside the
Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World (1995) and editor of The
Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture (2000).
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