J A Hiddleston

Baudelaire and the Art of Memory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study is an examination of Charles Baudelaire's (1821-67) art criticism and its relationship with his creative writing. It is the first book in English to treat in one volume the diverse aspects of the subject: the principal aesthetic ideas, the importance of the painters Delacroix, Boudin, Meryon, Guys, and Manet, Baudelaire's essays on laughter and caricature, and other critical writings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 151mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780198159322
• ISBN-10: 0198159323
• Artikelnr.: 22425997

Autorenporträt

Was Lecturer in French, Leeds University, 1960-66 Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, 1966

Inhaltsangabe

List of Plates
List of Abbreviations
In Search of an Aesthetic
Delacriox
De l'essence du rire
Caricature
From Landscape to the Painting of Modern Life
Manet
Language and Rhetoric
Bibliography
Index