The Artist as Critic and Liar: The Unreal and Amoral as Art in Oscar Wilde

Comfort, Kelly

doi:10.1057/9780230307247_2

European Aestheticism and Spanish American Modernismo 2011

DOI: 10.1057/9780230307247_2

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The Artist as Critic and Liar: The Unreal and Amoral as Art in Oscar Wilde

Kelly Comfort¹

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“…To understand this contradiction between form and content it is also interesting to see how Wilde handles the philosophy of Plato and Aristoteles. Comfort (2008) did a deep study of this topic. Since Wilde had a formation in Classical Studies, he had a deep knowledge of their philosophy.…”

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The Underlying Tension in Oscar Wilde’s “The Decay of Lying”

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The object of study of this paper is The Decay of Lying by Oscar Wilde. In The Decay of Lying, Wilde presents the four main theses of his aesthetic philosophy that are the following: Art never expresses anything but itself, all bad Art comes from returning to Life and Nature and elevating them into ideals, Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life, Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. (Wilde 1905, 83-85) These are presented in the form of a Socratic Dialogue. Plato creates this form to present transcendent truths. (Puchner 2010, 30-35) According to Quintus, the aesthetic philosophy of Wilde already creates a tension between the content and the form. (Quintus 1980, 559) This gets accentuated when it comes to the Socratic Dialogue. In this paper, I explore the dimensions of this question, if there is tension, and how Wilde plays with it. I conclude that Wilde, using the Socratic Dialogue, transforms and adapts it to his philosophy.

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“…Comfort points out, according to him one artistical product, gives space to the other one through criticism and renewal. (Comfort 2008) Because of this, Wilde has no problem taking ideas or forms and putting them into a new context. This is the history and evolution of Art, that he explains in The Decay of Lying.…”

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