Dandyism. Self-creation.
François Bourin| N° d'inventaire | 22221 |
| Format | 25 x 33 |
| Détails | 291 p., bound in cloth under dust jacket. |
| Publication | Paris, 2019 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9791025204689 |
time as an aestheticization of the self. It also seeks to be the expression, in the name of beauty, of an immense freedom linked to a form of individual revolt against society, its conformism and conservatism, but also against destiny. The dandy, as Albert Camus wrote, "only maintains himself in defiance." Even more than a living work of art - to borrow Oscar Wilde's aphorism - he is an incarnate utopia! But dandyism is also a great intellectual, philosophical and artistic movement whose influence, preponderant in the 19th and 20th centuries, is far from fading today. For the dandy spirit touches all forms of art, from the most classical to the most contemporary: literature, poetry and theater as well as painting, music, dance, photography and cinema... This is the fascinating story that Daniel Salvatore Schiffer tells us: from Lord Brummell to David Bowie, via Byron, Wilde, Baudelaire, Kierkegaard, George Sand, Proust, Diaghilev, Cocteau, Tzara, Greta Garbo, Coco Chanel, Dior, Mishima, Visconti, Warhol, Gainsbourg, Lagerfeld and Lady Gaga, not forgetting decadent writers, symbolist and pre-Raphaelite painters... and many others. A fascinating walk in the footsteps of one of the richest currents of European thought and Western art, magnificently illustrated with portraits, paintings and photographs. Daniel Salvatore Schiffer is a philosopher and essayist. An associate professor of philosophy, he teaches aesthetics at the École supérieure de l'Académie royale des beaux-arts de Liège. He is the author of around twenty books, including Dandyism, the last burst of heroism (PUF, 2010), A Little Eulogy to David Bowie. The Absolute Dandy (François Bourin Editeur, 2016), Figures of Dandyism (Peter Lang Publishing, 2017), Treatise on Sublime Death. The Art of Dying from Socrates to David Bowie (Alma Editeur, 2018), and Divin Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci, the Angel Incarnate (Editions Erick Bonnier, 2019).
time as an aestheticization of the self. It also seeks to be the expression, in the name of beauty, of an immense freedom linked to a form of individual revolt against society, its conformism and conservatism, but also against destiny. The dandy, as Albert Camus wrote, "only maintains himself in defiance." Even more than a living work of art - to borrow Oscar Wilde's aphorism - he is an incarnate utopia! But dandyism is also a great intellectual, philosophical and artistic movement whose influence, preponderant in the 19th and 20th centuries, is far from fading today. For the dandy spirit touches all forms of art, from the most classical to the most contemporary: literature, poetry and theater as well as painting, music, dance, photography and cinema... This is the fascinating story that Daniel Salvatore Schiffer tells us: from Lord Brummell to David Bowie, via Byron, Wilde, Baudelaire, Kierkegaard, George Sand, Proust, Diaghilev, Cocteau, Tzara, Greta Garbo, Coco Chanel, Dior, Mishima, Visconti, Warhol, Gainsbourg, Lagerfeld and Lady Gaga, not forgetting decadent writers, symbolist and pre-Raphaelite painters... and many others. A fascinating walk in the footsteps of one of the richest currents of European thought and Western art, magnificently illustrated with portraits, paintings and photographs. Daniel Salvatore Schiffer is a philosopher and essayist. An associate professor of philosophy, he teaches aesthetics at the École supérieure de l'Académie royale des beaux-arts de Liège. He is the author of around twenty books, including Dandyism, the last burst of heroism (PUF, 2010), A Little Eulogy to David Bowie. The Absolute Dandy (François Bourin Editeur, 2016), Figures of Dandyism (Peter Lang Publishing, 2017), Treatise on Sublime Death. The Art of Dying from Socrates to David Bowie (Alma Editeur, 2018), and Divin Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci, the Angel Incarnate (Editions Erick Bonnier, 2019).