Perhaps Wilde’s ideal of art as a common presence in life and its technical success in contemporary culture is nearly unavoidable, especially when we consider how defining ourselves with possessions manifests itself in everyday life so effortlessly. The upper and middle class are influenced by art that they then in turn use to influence the poorer classes. We buy according to what is made out to be renowned as fashionable, valuable, and popular because advertisements use the success of others to brand their products. In the case of celebrity endorsement, we are celebrating art and human performance to the point where those that made it have a profound influence on what we consider beautiful. This is made apparent in his writings most notably in “The Decay of Lying” when he talks about the fashions of the
Perhaps Wilde’s ideal of art as a common presence in life and its technical success in contemporary culture is nearly unavoidable, especially when we consider how defining ourselves with possessions manifests itself in everyday life so effortlessly. The upper and middle class are influenced by art that they then in turn use to influence the poorer classes. We buy according to what is made out to be renowned as fashionable, valuable, and popular because advertisements use the success of others to brand their products. In the case of celebrity endorsement, we are celebrating art and human performance to the point where those that made it have a profound influence on what we consider beautiful. This is made apparent in his writings most notably in “The Decay of Lying” when he talks about the fashions of the