Re: Cool Fashion Books?
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On Baudelaire: The best place to start is "The Painter of Modern Life" which is in a book of essays by the same name. It's more theoretical than critical, but absolutely seminal.
A taste for you....
"...it is much easier to decide outright that everything about the clothing of an age is absolutely ugly than to devote oneself to the task of distilling from it the mysterious beauty that it might contain, however slight or minimal that element may be. By "modernite" I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable."
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[quote user="laika"]
Glad you like!
On Baudelaire: The best place to start is "The Painter of Modern Life" which is in a book of essays by the same name. It's more theoretical than critical, but absolutely seminal.
A taste for you....
"...it is much easier to decide outright that everything about the clothing of an age is absolutely ugly than to devote oneself to the task of distilling from it the mysterious beauty that it might contain, however slight or minimal that element may be. By "modernite" I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable."
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