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Glamour in six dimensions : modernism and the radiance of form /

In Glamour in Six Dimensions Judith Brown looks at the historical and aesthetic roots of glamour in the early decades of the twentieth century, arguing that glamour is the defining aesthetic of modernism. In the clean lines of modernism she finds the ideal conditions for glamour-blankness, polish, i...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Brown, Judith (Judith Christine)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Sujets:
USA
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Perception : Chanel no. 5, Wallace Stevens, the sublime
  • Violence : Scott Fitzgerald, fascination, Katherine Mansfield
  • Photography : Virginia Woolf, grammar, desire
  • Celebrity : 1910, the extinction of personality, Greta Garbo
  • Primitivism : Wallace Thurman, Nella Larsen, Josephine Baker
  • Cellophane : Florine Stettheimer, Gertrude Stein, blankness.