Aesthetics of Self-Invention: Oscar Wilde To David Bowie

by Shelton Waldrep

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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.
  • ISBN10 0816634173
  • ISBN13 9780816634170
  • Publish Date 27 August 2004 (first published 23 August 2004)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 5 June 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Minnesota Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 232
  • Language English