High art : Charles Baudelaire and the origins of modernist painting

Title
  1. High art : Charles Baudelaire and the origins of modernist painting / David Carrier.
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  1. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1996.
Author
  1. Carrier, David, 1944-

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Description
  1. xx, 220 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. The great poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was also an extremely influential art critic. High Art relates the philosophical issues posed by Baudelaire's art writing to the theory and practice of modernist and postmodernist painting. Baudelaire wrote in an age of transition, David Carrier argues, an era divided by the Revolution of 1848, the historical break that played for him a role now taken within modernism by the political revolts of 1968. Moving from the grand tradition of Delacroix to the images of modern life made by Constantin Guys, this movement from "high" to "low," from the unified world of correspondances to the fragmented images of contemporary city life, motivates Baudelaire's equivalent to the post-1968 turn away from formalist art criticism. Viewed from the perspective of the 1990s, Carrier argues, the issues raised by Baudelaire's criticism and creative writing provide a way of understanding the situation of art writing in our own time.
Subject
  1. Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 > Criticism and interpretation
  2. Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867
  3. Baudelaire, Charles 1821-1867
  4. Delacroix, Eugène 1798-1863
  5. Matisse, Henri 1869-1954
  6. Baudelaire, Charles, (1821-1867) > Et l'art
  7. Baudelaire, Charles
  8. Painting > Philosophy
  9. Modernism (Art)
  10. Painting > Philosophy
  11. Modernismus (Kunst)
  12. Kunst
  13. Kunstkritik
  14. Literatur
  15. Malerei
  16. Moderne
  17. Ästhetik
  18. Schilderkunst
  19. Modernisme (cultuur)
  20. Oorsprong
  21. Modernisme (art)
Genre/Form
  1. Art criticism
  2. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  3. Art criticism.
  4. Critiques d'art.
Contents
  1. Introduction: Baudelaire's Metaphysics -- 1. The Style of the Argument in Baudelaire's Salon de 1846 -- 2. Baudelaire's "L'Oeuvre et la vie de Delacroix": Symbolist Painting in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction -- 3. Baudelaire's Philosophical Theory of Beauty -- 4. Moving Pictures -- 5. Les Paradis artificiels and the Origins of Modernism -- 6. "You, too, are in Arcadia": Matisse's Shchukin Triptych -- Conclusion: Handling Transitions.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-216) and index.