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The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays (Phaidon Arts and Letters)
This revival of a famous Phaidon series brings together in an elegant format some of the best-known writings of renowned artists, critics and interpreters of our cultural tradition. Each book, an acknowledged classic, provides insights not only into the worlds of the arts and cultural history, but also into the creative and intellectual preoccupations of its author and his...more
Paperback, 310 pages
Published
August 24th 1995
by Phaidon Press
(first published 1965)
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Apr 17, 2011
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Très intéressant, bien plus que je ne m'y attendais au premier abord ; je préfère d'ailleurs cette prose de Baudelaire à sa poésie. Il y a trace le portrait du peintre C. G. et de certaines de ses œuvres, pour en tirer une sorte de modèle, celui du "peintre de la vie moderne", et appuyer sa théorie "rationnelle et historique du beau". Il considère qu'il n'existe pas un Beau unique et éternel, mais que le beau est constitué d'un élément éternel et d'un élément historique, changeant et lié aux cir...more
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I enjoyed reading this- Baudelaire's poetic fondness for the life of the dandy finds a new home in art criticism. Baudelaire implores his peers to understand the strange and pure spirit behind great art. He also esteems the life of the dandy in its own right rather than as a consolation prize for non-aristocratic birth. Baudelaire is anything but a modern humanist and his beliefs would be unacceptable today. He relentlessly reviles the liberal politics of the French revolution and prefers to kee...more
اين كتاب حاوي مهمترين نوشتههاي بودلر در زمينه نقد ادبي و هنري است كه جاناتان مين، آنها را به زبان انگليسي منتشر كرده است.
نقدهاي ادبي و هنري بودلر پس از مرگ او در قالب دو كتاب به نامهاي «كنجكاويهاي زيبايي شناختي» و «هنر رمانتيك» منتشر شدند.
او آن مقالات را در اصل نه براي انتشار به صورت كتاب، بلكه براي چاپ در نشريات ادواري نوشته بود. مقالات و نقدهاي اين كتاب نيز از همان دو جلد گرفته شدهاند.
روبرت صافاريان تكههايي از برخي مقالات ديگر اين انديشمند را كه در مجموعهاي درباره مسائل هنر آمده بود،...more
نقدهاي ادبي و هنري بودلر پس از مرگ او در قالب دو كتاب به نامهاي «كنجكاويهاي زيبايي شناختي» و «هنر رمانتيك» منتشر شدند.
او آن مقالات را در اصل نه براي انتشار به صورت كتاب، بلكه براي چاپ در نشريات ادواري نوشته بود. مقالات و نقدهاي اين كتاب نيز از همان دو جلد گرفته شدهاند.
روبرت صافاريان تكههايي از برخي مقالات ديگر اين انديشمند را كه در مجموعهاي درباره مسائل هنر آمده بود،...more
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Picked up this beautiful 1970 edition at an old book shop in LA, I am so enjoying the editor's intro.
Ok, Baudelaire is pretty cool and sets up a space for modernism, but I am not very happy about his love of the dandy as the form of aristocracy in the intermittent space that will outlast the destructive force of democracy. And he agrees with Kant about reason saving us from nature (which I don't like). A girl in my class resolved the issue of gender for me--and I guess Baudelaire is breaking gender definitions as much as he is establishing them. I also like what she said about the concept of th...more
I prefer Baudelaire's poetry, personally.
A ler para a faculdade -.-~não gosto de ler livros obrigatórios ainda para mais estes que nao percebo xD
Baudelaire was an art critic - and a good one! Why are poets good art critics? The same goes for Frank O'Hara.
his theory is often overlooked or under appreciated, but in many ways rivals his poetry.
با بخشی از عقاید بودلر موافق بودم و با بخشی هم نه ولی در مجموع قلم نقادی قوی داره این بشر
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Charles Baudelaire was a 19th century French poet, translator, and literary and art critic whose reputation rests primarily on Les Fleurs du mal; (1857; The Flowers of Evil) which was perhaps the most important and influential poetry collection published in Europe in the 19th century. Similarly, his Petits poèmes en prose (1868; "Little Prose Poems") was the most successful and innovative early ex...more
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