artist as criminal – N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A,

≡ ‘Yes; it was a dreadful thing to do, but she had very thick ankles’ ≡

© Jodi Bieber, from the series Real Beauty. © Jodi Bieber, from the series Real Beauty. Reading Oscar Wilde‘s essays can be a trap, for he is first and foremost an hedonist and an aesthete. He loves fiction and romantic narratives, so when accounting for real events he can’t avoid putting his spin on the…