| | “In a sense, Pater’s preface and conclusion to The Renaissance were to his age what Susan Sontag’s essay Against Interpretation was to hers: a call for a new form of eroticism in criticism with an emphasis on the surface of things and a breaking down of barriers between high and low forms of art to include within the scope of criticism an understanding of the body’s relationship to the experience of art. Though hardly new as a concept of aesthetics-a renewal of the senses being one of the oldest definitions-Sontag’s attempt to redirect criticism to the focus on the body’s reactions to stimuli, most especially to pleasure for its own sake, was a way to bring back Wilde.” The Aesthetics of Self-Invention: Oscar Wilde to David Bowie, Shelton Waldrep (2004) |
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