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Material Figures : Political Economy, Commercial Culture, and the Aesthetic Sensibility of Charles Baudelaire - Couverture souple

Murphy, Margueritte

 
9789042035263: Material Figures : Political Economy, Commercial Culture, and the Aesthetic Sensibility of Charles Baudelaire
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 9042035269 ISBN 13 : 9789042035263
Editeur : Rodopi, 2012

Synopsis

Ideological debates about economics and aesthetics raged hotly in nineteenth-century France. French political economy was taking shape as a discipline that would support free-market liberalism, while lart pour lart theories circulated, and utopian systems with aesthetic and economic agendas proliferated. Yet, as this book argues, the discourses of art and literature worked in tandem with market discourses to generate theories of economic and social order, of the model of the self-individuating and desiring subject of modernity, and of this individuals relationship to a new world of objects. Baudelaire as a poet and art critic is exemplary: Rather than a disaffected artist, Baudelaire is shown to be a spectator desirous of both art and goods whose sensibilities reflect transformations in habits of perception. The book includes chapters on equilibrium and utility in economic and aesthetic theory, on the place of the aesthetic in press coverage of the industrial exhibitions, on the harmonic theories of Baudelaires early art criticism, aimed at a bourgeois audience, on Baudelaires radical cosmopolitanism learned through viewing objects on display at the Universal Exhibition of 1855, and on Les Fleurs du Mal and Le Spleen de Paris, where language makes visible the traits of a new material world.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Ideological debates about economics and aesthetics raged hotly in nineteenth-century France. French political economy was taking shape as a discipline that would support free-market liberalism, while lart pour lart theories circulated, and utopian systems with aesthetic and economic agendas proliferated. Yet, as this book argues, the discourses of art and literature worked in tandem with market discourses to generate theories of economic and social order, of the model of the self-individuating and desiring subject of modernity, and of this individuals relationship to a new world of objects. Baudelaire as a poet and art critic is exemplary: Rather than a disaffected artist, Baudelaire is shown to be a spectator desirous of both art and goods whose sensibilities reflect transformations in habits of perception. The book includes chapters on equilibrium and utility in economic and aesthetic theory, on the place of the aesthetic in press coverage of the industrial exhibitions, on the harmonic theories of Baudelaires early art criticism, aimed at a bourgeois audience, on Baudelaires radical cosmopolitanism learned through viewing objects on display at the Universal Exhibition of 1855, and on Les Fleurs du Mal and Le Spleen de Paris, where language makes visible the traits of a new material world.

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Éditeur
Rodopi
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9042035269
ISBN 13 
9789042035263
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
252
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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