Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was an Anglo-Irish dramatist, novelist, essayist, short-story writer, critic, and poet. He was part of the Decadence, a loosely affiliated coterie of writers and artists of the 1890s whose lives and works manifested a highly stylized, decorative mann...

The concept of the avant-garde is still today an area of contention since its initial cultural formulation by Saint-Simon in 1825. One of the most important works to emerge that added to the contemporary debate on the avant-garde and post-modernism was the classic work by Peter Bu...

The archaic period is a crucial time in the evolution of Greek culture and is well known for its innovations, especially in art. Artists were pushed to develop their skills in new ways and development from this time was continuous. Trade was increasing and so the Greeks had more contact with non-gre...