Remarkably Wilde: The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms. They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist. This is a good and thoughtful read and spans morality, political economy, and that unique and Wildian way of turning what is absurd into wisdom and what appears to be wisdom into absurdity. [It may be too long and too deep to view for the TV Set]
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 04:06:32 +0000