The Wilde Years - Oscar Wilde and his Times

Edited by Tomoko Sato
and Lionel Lambourne
Focusing on the last quarter of the nineteenth century The Wilde Years features Oscar Wilde as a catalytic figure linking two artistic capitals, London and Paris.
144 pages; 75 colour and 80 mono illustrations, cloth, 250 x 250mm
ISBN 13: 
9780856675263
ISBN 10: 
0 85667 526
£35
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Wilde is presented as a multi-faceted artist whose major achievement was the language with which he contributed to the development of artistic and cultural movements of his age.

In his lifetime Wilde was praised as a poet, novelist and, in particular, playwright, but this publication throws new light on his lesser-known work as an art critic, journalist and progressive political thinker. The book is a tribute to the man who, in his own words, 'stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age'.

This book is edited by Tomoko Sato, Curator at the Barbican Art Gallery, and Lionel Lambourne, former Head of Paintings at the Victoria and Albert Museum.