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Oscar Wilde said that all art is quite useless. Is it?
Created by frizzyperm on Dec 5, 2008 in the Oscar Wilde Group.
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I think I'm right to believe that Oscar Wilde did not literally mean are is useless but instead...
Posted by angelnnn on Nov 28, 2009 in the Oscar Wilde Group.
As a radical Wildean I can see that he must have said these words back in the aesthetic period of...
Posted by herappleness on Oct 8, 2009 in the Oscar Wilde Group.
Posters 4,5,6,and 7: I think that you could possibly be taking this phrase far too literally....
Posted by kittykars on Jan 14, 2009 in the Oscar Wilde Group.
Useless beauty is what art gives to the human race. Thank goodness we have such...
Posted by loveart on Dec 14, 2008 in the Oscar Wilde Group.
This topic is very complicated and difficult to understand.But what we should not forget is...
Posted by sanjiwan on Dec 11, 2008 in the Oscar Wilde Group.
Considering that Wilde himself was an artist--as all writers are--it's rather hypocritical of him...
Posted by linda-allen on Dec 11, 2008 in the Oscar Wilde Group.
Taking a purely personal approach to this question, I totally disagree with Wilde -- as I suspect...
Posted by cburr on Dec 11, 2008 in the Oscar Wilde Group.
Art is absolutely useful in today's society. It isn't limited to art of a specific form either:...
Posted by forrestk on Dec 5, 2008 in the Oscar Wilde Group.
All art has a purpose...it represents the inner workings of the mind of the artist at the time....
Posted by amy-lepore on Dec 5, 2008 in the Oscar Wilde Group.
What do we have of the past that is tangible BUT the artistic? The writings, the architecture,...
Posted by mwestwood on Dec 5, 2008 in the Oscar Wilde Group.
Oscar Wilde is a reknowned dramtist WILDE was infuenced bythe aesthetic movement with its slogan...
Posted by prasadpegataraju on Dec 5, 2008 in the Oscar Wilde Group.
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