1. The Aesthetic Ideal In The Picture Of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
... illustrated or recommended art for art's sake."( Tindall 7) Oscar Wilde discovered beauty at Oxford where he studied under the two great art critics of the Victorian age, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. Pater's injuction "to know one's impression as it really is" underlies Aestheticism's guiding principle: the sole function of art is to inspire an emotion or create a mood. Oscar Wilde rejects ... ...
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