The+Picture+of+Dorian+Gray

= //The Picture of Dorian Gray//, by Oscar Wilde =

Published in England, 1890
**Biography of Oscar Wilde:**

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Oscar_Wilde


 * L. A. Times article about how WWI changed the art world and ushered in MODERNISM**

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-world-war-art-20120722,0,7065227.story



//[|Concise Oxford Dictionary]//: "a luxurious self-indulgence". [|Oscar Wilde] gave a curious definition: "[|Classicism] is the subordination of the parts to the whole; decadence is the subordination of the whole to the parts."
 * Decadence** can refer to a personal trait, or to the state of a society (or segment of it). Used to describe a person's lifestyle.

In social context, the word 'decadent' is often used to describe corrosive [|decline] due to an erosion of [|moral], ethical, and sexual [|traditions]. In literature, the [|Decadent movement]—late nineteenth century //[|fin de siècle]// writers who were associated with [|Symbolism] or the[| Aesthetic movement]—was first given its name by hostile critics, and then the name was triumphantly adopted by some writers themselves. These "decadents" **relished artifice** over the earlier Romantics' naïve view of nature. Some of these writers were influenced by the tradition of the [|Gothic novel] and by the poetry and fiction of [|Edgar Allan Poe].

"Art for Art's Sake" movement:
http://www.theartstory.org/definition-art-for-art.htm


 * Recent article about an artist who is an "anti-aesthete:"**

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-03-09/entertainment/ct-ae-0311-michael-rakowitz-20120308_1_art-project-smart-museum-conceptual-art#.T2VOBwUeXeQ.email

LITERARY CRITICISM - Definition and Schools of Thought

 * GROUP PRESENTATION**