The Arts and the Craftsman

The brilliant essayist Oscar Wilde, with his agile and accurate prose, profound and light-hearted, often ironic and always entertaining and brimming with intelligence, offers us, in these short essays on art, a delightful sample of his wisdom. Wilde was a co-founder of the Arts and Crafts movement, which anticipated the artistic avant-garde of the 20th century, and here he sets out the central ideas of a way of looking at art that is still in full force today. He advocates the spiritual unity of the arts and links them closely with craftsmanship, restoring to the latter the artistic dignity and creative drive that classicism and romanticism had denied it. It links art to life, as something that gives meaning to the everyday and unravels its secrets; it connects art, architecture, design and craft in a broad sense; it deals with subjects such as decoration, sculpture, printing and bookbinding, clothing design.... In short, this book is a brief treatise on good taste, a simple and masterful lesson in aesthetics applied to art, design and our lives; an invitation to open our eyes to the beauty that surrounds us and to look at life with the aesthetic intelligence that Wilde preached.

Language: Spanish

Pages:124