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Artiste de la vie moderne
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ISBN: 9004549331 Year: 2023 Publisher: Leiden : Brill,

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"Narcissus? A burglar? An illusionist? The dandy never stops changing roles, putting himself on stage in order to protect his true self and maintain his independence. But let us not forget that his first obligation is to amaze. As a master of appearances, he invents poses and derives pleasure from hiding his face behind multiple masks to confuse his audience. From Fortunio to Arsène Lupin, not forgetting the dandy woman, from Saint-Just to Romain Gary, the sixteen studies in this book present an exceptional gallery of figures that delineate the history of dandyism. We will discover the art of being a dandy and unexpected, even surprising incarnations (both literary and historical) of this mysterious character. So, masks up! Let the show begin!"-- Provided by publisher.


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Fashioning the dandy : style and manners
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ISBN: 1839984457 1839984465 Year: 2023 Publisher: London : Anthem Press,

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The book explores the dandy as a cultural type across Europe and Russia from the eighteenth century through the present day. Olga Vainshtein offers a unique view on dandyism as a cultural tradition, based not merely on fashionable attire, but also as a particular lifestyle with specific standards of behaviour, bodily practices and conceptual approaches to dress. The dandy is described as the prototypical hero of the modern cult of celebrities. From clubbing manners, the techniques of virtual aristocratism, urban flâneurs and the correct way to examine people, Vainshtein walks us through optical duels and the techniques of visual assessment at social gatherings. Readers will learn about strategies of subversive behaviour found in practical jokes, the fine art of noble scandal, dry wit, bare-faced impudence and mocking politeness. Looking at dandyism as a nineteenth-century literary movement, Vainshtein examines representation of dandies in fiction. Finally, a large section is devoted to Russian and Soviet dandyism and the dandies of today.

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Dandies. --- Men. --- Dandies --- Men --- History. --- Social life and customs.


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No dandy, no fun : looking good as things fall apart
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ISBN: 9783956795619 395679561X Year: 2023 Publisher: London : Bern : Sternberg Press Kunsthalle Bern,

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No sooner had the first Dandy entered the scene at the beginning of the nineteenth century than he was declared dead. This enigmatic yet immediately iconic figure would remake an entrance again and again in the decades that followed. Like an elegant harbinger, Dandys arrive in times of crisis when societies are undergoing transformation. Like the hands of a clock, their silhouettes become messengers of change. But they are contours of change that carry no message. While everything is already in flames, they debate the shape of their shoes and sip oysters to combat their depression. For a long time, literature was their playing field. Marcel Duchamp transferred their attitude into the realm art. It is there that Dandyism has to this day run rampant--but as if it were an embarrassing illness to which almost no one wants to admit, yet with which many people are itching to at least flirt. This essay traces out the masked ball of the Dandy and his manner of playing with its rules up to the present day and produces a unique narrative from it: one that offers a view into the future.

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Dandy --- Dandyismus --- Kunst. --- Geschichte. --- Dandies --- Dandyism --- Exhibitions


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George Brummell, dandy, saint et martyr
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ISBN: 2130838340 9782130838340 Year: 2023 Publisher: Paris: PUF,

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George Brummell, prince des dandys, ne doit pas être confondu avec tous les épigones qui ont usurpé et dévalué ce titre. L'envers des élégants qui rivalisent entre eux par la coupe ou la richesse de leurs parures, le dandysme selon Brummell est un art du dépouillement, déjà illustré, en d'autres temps, par la peinture et la sagesse orientales. À ce titre, il s'oppose radicalement à toutes les formes d'excentricité, incarnées par Barbey d'Aurevilly, biographe de Brummell, et, à l'occasion, par Baudelaire. Il introduit ainsi une forme inédite d'harmonie fondée sur la négativité, par où il rejoint l'esthétique des troubadours ou de Mallarmé. Par là, il présente dans le monde le modèle d'un homme sans qualités, bien fait pour déstabiliser les lords et les ladies de la cour du régent. Il parachève son personnage par la pratique d'un humour assassin dont chaque trait détient une perle de la pensée, pour peu que soit dégagée la « substantifique moëlle » qu'il recèle, à quoi échouèrent jusqu'ici ses différents critiques. Si Brummell a exercé pendant vingt ans une souveraineté absolue dans tous les salons d'Europe, c'est qu'il introduisait, à travers son déni de la mode, une subversion de tous les idéaux et de toutes les valeurs de l'ancien monde, pour quoi il fut plusieurs fois comparé à Napoléon par ses contemporains. Un point toutefois est resté ignoré des historiens, c'est que cette action destructrice impliquait la propre disparition de son auteur, ce qu'il accomplit lui-même par sa ruine financière préméditée, sa disgrâce provoquée auprès du régent, son exil en France enfin où il va connaître la misère, la prison pour dettes, la folie et la mort, annonçant par là le destin d'un autre personnage, Oscar Wilde, son seul héritier, qui, après avoir connu une gloire pareille à la sienne, parcourra le même chemin de croix, au terme duquel il éprouvera, comme Brummell, une même apothéose.

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