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Dandyism in Oscar Wilde and Gabriele D'Annunzio - Coggle Diagram
Dandyism in Oscar Wilde and Gabriele D'Annunzio
similarities
Life as a work of art
they led and an intense and spectacular social life and adopted extravagant poses
devotion of own life to the pursuit of pleasures of any kind, intellectual as well as material
Belonged to upper classes
beauty is the most important thing
clothes, words or phisical beauty
dandy is eccentric, non-conformist and loves to give scandal
differences
different societies
Italy ruled by Fascism
England influenced by the Utilitarian and moralistic Victorian empire
Sperelli was more devoted to the pleasure derived from love affairs, without mystical complications
Gray had a compromising and sinister existence, experiencing exaggerated and even “diabolic” pleasures
Dorian Gray from "The picture of Dorian Gray"
The preface
"
The artist is the creator of beautiful things
"
Andrea Sperelli from "Il piacere"
connected to Aestheticism
rejected didacticism
"All art is quite useless" (from Preface of the picture of Dorian Gray)
hatred of the hypocrisy and the increasing uniformity of the industrial society
search for pleasures and vices, often through the use of drugs and alcohol