High Art: Charles Baudelaire and the Origins of Modernist Painting

by David Carrier

The great poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was also an extremely influential art critic. High Art relates the philosophical issues posed by Baudelaire's art writing to the theory and practice of modernist and postmodernist painting. Baudelaire wrote in an age of transition, David Carrier argues, an era divided by the Revolution of 1848, the historical break that played for him a role now taken within modernism by the political revolts of 1968...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271015276
• ISBN13: 9780271015279
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"