...Monica L. Miller Taking seriously (and for granted) the playful perversity of blackness, “Black, Queer, Dandy” examines the black dandy archive’s encounter with Oscar Wilde. Looking to his precursor, arch and witty eighteenth-century “dandy in black” Julius Soubise, and his heir, sardonic black...

... of invigoration. Shonibare echoes Oscar Wilde's mantra that indi...

... of invigoration. Shonibare echoes Oscar Wilde's mantra that indi...

... to us the spirit of its age - Oscar Wilde m. * -a 1 ip-hop music has left an indelible mark on my life...

... envelope”) “frock consciousness,” a young Baker burst on the to Oscar Wilde (famed for his celebration of the stage of the Thêatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris superficial) to Andy Warhol (“If you want to know and became an overnight sensation and an icon of all about Andy Warhol, just look...

.... of their grandfathers than the likes of Oscar Wilde Produced by Danish lmmaker Jeppe Rønde, the or Beau Brummel. ey pair vintage with modern lm describes the Swenka culture and discusses pieces designed on London’s Savile Row, African the history of “swanking,” holding amateur style prints with polka dots...

... the success of hip-hop culture. These images are own body within the narrative of Oscar Wilde's the quintessential fusion of these cultural ten• infamous story "The Picture of Dorian Gray." The sions, but they are also intentionally ambivalent Dandy series, however, succeeds where Passing...

... The centrality of pleasure in the life of organisms explains the necessity for engaging it, evoking the sentiment of Lord Henry Wotton in Oscar Wilde s The Picture of Dorian Gray: Pleasure is the only thing worth having a theory about. 12 Despite, and perhaps because of, its importance, pleasure seem- ingly...

... established by the Brit- publication. Image courtesy Oscar Mann, Nairobi ish in 1946, just a few years a er her arrival.8 One blocks into a miniature community all plainly echo of May’s colleagues in the colony, Mann participated its antecedents...

... established by the Brit- publication. Image courtesy Oscar Mann, Nairobi ish in 1946, just a few years a er her arrival.8 One blocks into a miniature community all plainly echo of May’s colleagues in the colony, Mann participated its antecedents...

..., in The Short Century, 12. 32 Prominent one-person exhibitions that centered upon 12 Enwezor, An Introduction, in The Short Century, 14. Anatsui s bottle-cap works include El Antasui: Gawu (Oriel Mostyn 13 This is in reference to Oscar Wilde s 1890 Gothic novel The Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, 2003), Zebra...

... is still a grocer. Tony s older brother Colin (Oscar James) finds promise in the dogma of the Black Power movement. In the film, Tony ap- pears different to his relatives because he was born Film still from Pressure, 1975. Tony and Colin. © British Film Institute Espert Nka 47 in Britain a fact...

... It is through her dual role 2 as performing artist and model that Maudelle actress Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar for por• employed an expressive strategy that influenced traying the stereotypical character of "Mammy" in the development of black...