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>"An unhealthy work of art is a work whose subject is deliberately chosen, not because the artist has any pleasure in it, but because he thinks that the public will pay him for it."

Was Oscar Wilde talking about Stephen King?

>> No.14675710

Guenon, out of the way. There's a new retroactive refuter--
Oscar Wilde

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>>14675648
He's wrong cos art has always been about human reappropriation into pure presence (as being) and whatever economy we have for that purpose ie purchasing is irrelevant

>> No.14677824

>>14677386
please clarify

>> No.14677869

>>14677386
He’s still calling it “art”. What he’s saying is it’s “unhealthy” art because it’s oriented towards the economy with primacy over the human.

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Halfbrains will confuse this essay as supportive of socialism, but it hits OP's point on the head.

>http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1017/1017-h/1017-h.htm

The Soul of Man
Oscar Wilde

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>>14675648
No he's talking about the '70s horror novels with names like "K9 Bloodbath" that were written to cash in on the success of Stephen King.

>>14677899
The flaw in his reasoning is that not everyone is gonna turn into Oscar Wilde if he's on welfare. And Oscar would have found a way to write even if he needed a job.

Ironically, Stephen King discusses this exact point in "On Writing" were he talks about writing on a diaper changing table in his laundry room for an hour every day.