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On a visit to the US shortly after the civil war, Oscar Wilde was asked why he thought the country was so violent. "I can tell you why America is so violent," Wilde replied, "it is because your wallpaper is so ugly."
That might sound like a typical Wildean witticism, and it is, but what Wilde was really expressing was the importance that he and others in the aesthetic movement attributed to beauty and good craftsmanship and its impact on how people behave. To be surrounded by ugliness, the Irish writer believed, led to ugly thoughts and ugly actions.
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