This edition is strictly limited to 200 numbered copies. With never-before published images of Epstein’s designs and insightful commentary, the booklet reveals how it morphed from a Greek youth to a “flying demon angel,” how it reflects Egyptian mythology, and how its genitals were hidden and then stolen! He found critical and popular success with his scintillating plays, chiefly The Importance of Being Earnest, while his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, scandalized readers. In this booklet, Wilson – an art historian and retired Tate Museum curator – explores the inspirations and evolution of the controversial tomb sculpture. Oscar Wilde Books The ever-quotable Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet who delighted Victorian England with his legendary wit. It has been gorgeously produced, printed on high-quality paper with black endpapers and one of Epstein’s sphinxes silver-foiled on a purple card cover. He has expanded his in-depth article from The Wildean 56 into a booklet, with new information and additional images. Simon Wilson OBE has written the definitive history of Jacob Epstein’s designs for Wilde’s tomb at Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris. Payment in the UK by PayPal to Please put “Epstein Tomb” in the description box. A celebrated 19th century Irish writer, Oscar Wilde’s poems, stories, and plays, have earned him dedicated fans the world over. £10 + £3 postage and packing (UK – for overseas postage, contact Robert Whelan)Ī black-card slipcase is available for an additional £10 In 1891, Wilde’s essays on literary criticism, The Decay of Lying, Pen, Pencil and Poison, The Truth of Masks, and The Critic as Artist in two parts, were published in a volume called Intentions. JACOB EPSTEIN’S STUDIES FOR THE TOMB OF OSCAR WILDE Click here to read a review by Matthew Sturgis. Oscar Wilde: A Woman of No Importance Parents and Parenthood Children begin by loving their parents. Using letters, memoirs, biographies, previously unpublished information and thousands of contemporary newspaper accounts, Geoff Dibb gives us a portrait of Wilde which we have never seen before. Oscar Wilde: A Woman of No Importance Men and Women LORD ILLINGWORTH: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. OSCAR WILDE, A VAGABOND WITH A MISSION is the first comprehensive study of Wilde’s lecture tours of Great Britain and Ireland between 18. Finally, there are the two texts that come out of his imprisonment: The Ballad Of Reading Gaol and De Profundis, a tragic conclusion to the work of one of the. His tireless researches have produced a treasure trove of lecture extracts, contemporary press reports and ephemera that shine significant new light on a formative period in Wilde’s life and literary development.” ~ JONATHAN FRYER, Writer and Broadcaster “Geoff Dibb digs deep into ground over which Oscar’s biographers have so far merely skated.
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