| #3867614 in Books | 1990-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.50 x6.00 x.75l, | File type: PDF | 208 pages||||This study represents a refreshingly new approach to the reading of Baudelaire . . . [and] suggests a new way of reading the best-known French poet, and shows how brilliantly he anticipated the themes and techniques of modern art. It represents an important c
Recognised as the author of the first philosophy of caricature, Charles Baudelaire formulated in his 1855 essay "De l'Essence du rire" an understanding of distortion and comic intent that would come to shape, Ainslie Armstrong McLee argues, not only Baudelaire's poetics but also the modernism his works helped unleash. Exploring the poet's early fascination with the affective power of caricature, with its unique mingling of visual distortion and verbal commentary, "Baudel...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Baudelaire's "Argot Plastique": Poetic Caricature and Modernism | Ainslie Armstrong McLees. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.