Is Art Useless? / Reading Oscar Wilde's Preface Together

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0:00 the obscenity trial of Oscar Wilde
1:00 the artist is the creator of beautiful things
1:20 beauty vs sublime
1:40 Plato and Socratic dialogues
2:10 to reveal art and conceal the artist is the artist's aim
2:30 Tolstoy and Anna Karenina
3:00 Victor Hugo, Sterne, Fielding, Austen
4:20 the critic of beautiful things
5:30 the need for positive critics
6:00 art criticism as the highest mode of autobiography
6:40 finding ugly meanings in beautiful things
9:30 James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son
10:30 art for art's sake, symbolism, fin de siècle
11:20 protest novels and social utility
12:00 Tolstoy's What Is Art?
12:00 there is no such thing as an immoral book
13:00 the rage of Caliban
15:00 le mot juste, Joyce, Conrad, and the tension in art
16:00 ethical sympathies as unpardonable mannerisms of style
17:00 the condition of music and novel as highest art form
18:00 surface and symbol
19:20 disagreement about literature
20:00 the only excuse for making a useless thing

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