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Representations of Oscar Wilde (1854-2000) were crucial to launching and sustaining his career in the world of the arts and also to determining his unhappy fate. Thus, historians often focus on the meaning and importance of Wilde's image, when discussing the late-nineteenth-century British cultural milieu. One of the highlights of this exhibition will be a previously unknown caricature of Wilde by Max Beerbohm. But the items on view will go "beyond" Wilde, to consider a fuller range of images of male and female writers and artists, in both portraits and self-portraits.
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