HISTART 180C Chapter Notes - Chapter Baudelaire: On Photography, The Dandy, History Painting
12 Oct 2016
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A madness, an extraordinary fanaticism took possession of all these new sun- worshippers. Baudelaire"s most productive and genius year was 1859. Contempt for modernism, the ideals and aspirations of the new social order, and especially photography. No: artists themselves, he is hoping to sway and refute their inclination to supplement art with photography, to continue painting what they dream, and not what they see. To a child, everything is new, exciting, and interesting (a perpetual state of drunken revelry in one"s surroundings) A child"s novelty of the thinking and feeling combined with an adult"s sensibility, talent, and means: m. g. is a dandy, which allows him to approach life with a cool indifference, the crowd is his domain . The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes . The artist is a lover of life who searches to embrace and reflect the immense kaleidoscope of life that the crowd creates with every passing moment and motion.
