Alone in a Crowd: Charles Baudelaire and 20th-Century and Contemporary Art
| Autor: | Jirátová, Kristýna |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Bydžovská, Lenka, Urban Otto, Hlaváčková, Jitka |
| Jazyk: | čeština |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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poezie 19. a 20. století|výtvarné umění 20. a 21. století|Charles Baudelaire|Květy zla|moderní umění|zlo|ošklivost|smrt|strach|femme fatale|synestézie|prokletí|spleen|nuda|osamocení|individualismus|dandismus|dav|autostylizace
19th- and 20th-century poetry|20th- and 21st-century visual arts|Charles Baudelaire|The Flowers of Evil|modern art|evil|ugliness|death|fear|femme fatale|synesthesia|curse|spleen|boredom|loneliness|individualism|dandyism|crowd|self-stylization |
| Popis: | Alone in a Crowd: Charles Baudelaire and 20th-Century and Contemporary Art The dissertation called Alone in a Crowd explores the influence of the poet Charles Baudelaire's personality and work on 20th-century and contemporary art. Due to the field of study, the main focus is on the visual arts, but literature, music, philosophy, and film are also included to a large extent. This dissertation is divided into four substantive chapters. The first chapter, The Inner Message, introduces the poet's life, his family and acquaintances, as well as Baudelaire's poetry collection The Flowers of Evil. Themes of evil, ugliness, fear, death, and even a relationship to their mother, father and women are common for 20th-century and contemporary artists. This chapter presents Félicien Rops, James Ensor, Edvard Munch, Hans Bellmer, Francis Bacon, Joel-Peter Witkin, Kurt Cobain, members of the Young British Artists group, Lars von Trier, and others. The second chapter pursues the correspondence theory. The character of the Swedish philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg and his successor, William Blake, is followed by Baudelaire's understanding of sensual and spiritual correspondences, as his principles are adopted by modern artists in a distinct manner. The third chapter called "On the Edge of Society" covers the curse... |
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