The Decline of Lying (Selected Art Criticism of Oscar Wilde)

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Features: Life imitates art far more than art imitates life. Outstanding artists create new archetypes, and life tries to imitate them. Art finds its perfection within itself rather than outside itself. To feel for the sake of feeling is the purpose of art, while to feel for the sake of action is the purpose of life. "Outstanding artists create new archetypes, and life tries to imitate them"; "Life imitates art far more than art imitates life"; "Language is the mother of thought, not the child of thought." A hundred years later, these aesthetic views from the master Oscar Wilde, in terms of their pioneering and avant-garde nature, would still shock us modern people. This book collects and translates Wilde's famous art criticism collection Intentions and another important essay The Soul of Man Under Socialism. Many of Wilde's famous quotes that are come from these works. The translator has selected a large number of art images to interpret relevant chapters, a first in the translation of Wilde's works, and truly precious.