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Author : Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Dandies
ISBN : UCSD:31822035071182
Author : JULES A. BARBEY. D'AUREVILLY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033141895
Author : Jules A. Barbey D'Aurevilly
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0428514782
Excerpt from Of Dandyism and of George Brummell The translator was so much impressed with the author's insight and With the brilliancy of his style, that he has at tempted to suggest in English as near the original as possible what must in its essential elegance almost altogether evaporate from the silver vessel. But he is at the same time conscious of his model's defects. They were in great part the defects of qualities, for Barbey d'aurevilly was all his life an idealist. Before inditing this monograph he had a preconceived theory of Dandyism, which he fitted on to Brummell, very adroitly, it is true, but not without gloss ing over or accentuating certain points in his hero's life, which did not quite reconcile themselves with this theory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
Publisher : AJ Publishing Company
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015015447918
What is a dandy? Carlyle said he was a man whose "existence consists in the wearing of clothes." Isak Dinesen worshipped the freedom of the aesthete as a special Satan. But even these definitions are not enough to contain the dazzling originalities of Lord Chesterfield, Oscar Wilde, George Sand, Max Beerbohm, Baudelaire, Jean Cocteau--all of them dandies. Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly's jewel-like writing on the sensibility of dandyism has never been equaled as the study of life lived as style. His Dandyism, with a new preface by Quentin Crisp, is now back in print in America after an absence of nearly a century. The implication for today's obsession with fashion and personality make this 1845 study of the cult of the self as timely and thoughtful as ever. In the spectacles of contemporary society, the body easily becomes a cultural text. Barbey d'Aurevilly looks behind the mask of English society in the Regency period to show how life can be lived as ironic performance. In his own magnificent performance as a writer one can feel the aroma of manners exuded by the eponymous Beau Brummell who is the star of this miniature portrait of elegant hedonism and spectacular decline. "Brummell was descended from the people of the north, lymphatic and pale, like their mother the sea ...." are the words he uses to describe the Englishman. No wonder his contemporary Lord Byron said he would rather be Brummell than Napoleon. Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly himself lived the life of a dandy in an age that was beginning to define our idea of modernist sensibility. He wrote over fifty volumes of novels, short stories, criticism, and letters, one of the most provocative his study of women, The Diaboliques. He was also the model for Des Esseintes in Huysmans' decadent novel Against Nature. Barbey d'Aurevilly died in 1889, at the age of eighty, in utter poverty but surrounded by his Angora cats.--Adapted from dust jacket.
Author : Ian Kelly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416531982
"If people turn to look at you in the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable." -- Beau Brummell Long before tabloids and television, Beau Brummell was the first person famous for being famous, the male socialite of his time, the first metrosexual -- 200 years before the word was conceived. His name has become synonymous with wit, profligacy, fine tailoring, and fashion. A style pundit, Brummell was singly responsible for changing forever the way men dress -- inventing, in effect, the suit. Brummell cut a dramatic swath through British society, from his early years as a favorite of the Prince of Wales and an arbiter of taste in the Age of Elegance, to his precipitous fall into poverty, incarceration, and madness. Brummell created the blueprint for celebrity crash and burn, falling dramatically out of favor and spending his last years in a hellish asylum. For nearly two decades, Brummell ruled over the tastes and pursuits of the well heeled and influential, and for almost as long, lived in penury and exile. With vivid prose, critically acclaimed biographer Ian Kelly unlocks the glittering, turbulent world of late-eighteenth/early-nineteenth-century London -- the first truly modern metropolis: venal, fashion-and-celebrity obsessed, self-centered and self-doubting -- through the life of one of its greatest heroes and most tragic victims. Brummell personified London's West End, where a new style of masculinity and modern men's fashion were first defined. Brummell was the leading Casanova and elusive bachelor of his time, appealing to both men and women of his society. The man Lord Byron once claimed was more important than Napoleon, Brummell was the ultimate cosmopolitan man. "Toyboy" to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and leader of playboys including the eventual king of England, Brummell inspired Pushkin to write Eugene Onegin, and Byron to write Don Juan, and he influenced others from Oscar Wilde to Coco Chanel. Through love letters, historical records, and poems, Kelly reveals the man inside the suit, unlocking the scandalous behavior of London's high society while illuminating Brummell's enigmatic life in the colorful, tumultuous West End. A rare rendering of an era filled with excess, scandal, promiscuity, opulence, and luxury, Beau Brummell is the first comprehensive view of an elegant and ultimately tragic figure whose influence continues to this day.
Author : George Walden,Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02
Category : Dandies
ISBN : 1903933366
Dandyism has made an amazing come-back after 200 years, with people like David Beckham and Jarvis Cocker leading the field and everyone else following. This book is both a biography of the famous English dandy George Brummell's life and an examination of what it takes to be a dandy.
Author : Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X004963547
Walden has written a text on dandyism which he argues is a deeply-rooted and a uniquely English phenomenon. Using the celebrated life-portrait of the dying Beau Brummell by Jules Barbey (included at the end of the book), he shows in this text who are today's supreme dandies and who its fops.
Author : William Jesse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Dandies
ISBN : UOM:39015016775747
Author : Ellen Moers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Dandies
ISBN : UOM:49015003327476
Author : Roger Boutet de Monvel,Mary Craven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Dandies
ISBN : WISC:89096296306
Author : Shaun Cole,Miles Lambert
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300254136
Celebrating 250 years of male self-expression, investigating the portraiture and wardrobe of the fashionable British man The style of the dandy is elegant but bold--dedicated to the perfection of taste. This meticulously choreographed look has a vibrant history; the legacy of Beau Brummell, the original dandy of Regency England, can be traced in the clothing of urban dandies today. Dandy Style celebrates 250 years of male self-expression, investigating the portraiture and wardrobe of the fashionable British man. Combining fashion, art, and photography, the historic and the contemporary, the provocative and the respectable, it considers key themes in the development of male style and identity, including elegance, uniformity, and spectacle. Various types of dandy are represented by iconic figures such as Oscar Wilde, Edward VIII as Prince of Wales, and Gilbert & George. They appear alongside the seminal designs of Vivienne Westwood, Ozwald Boateng, and Alexander McQueen; and portraits by Thomas Gainsborough and David Hockney.
Author : Richard Pine
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1988-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349080533
Author : Carlo Maria Franzero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Dandies
ISBN : IND:30000054425073
Traces the life the the English dandy who transformed the world of fashion in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. -- Dust jacket.
Author : Dominic James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1851245596
Dressy men as a type of celebrity have played a distinctive part in the cultural - and even in the political - life of Britain over several centuries. But unlike the twenty-first-century hipster, the dandies of the British past provoked intense degrees of fascination and horror in their homeland and played an important role in British society from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. This book - illustrated with contemporary prints, portraits and caricatures - explores that social and cultural history through a focus on the macaroni, the dandy and the aesthete. The first was noted for his flamboyance, the second for his austere perfectionism and the third for his sexual perversity. All were highly controversial in their time, pioneering new ways of displaying and performing gender, as demonstrated by the impact of key figures such as Lord Hervey, George 'Beau' Brummell and Oscar Wilde. This groundbreaking study tells the scandalous story of fashionable men and their clothes as a reflection of changing attitudes not only to style but also to gender and sexuality.
Author : William Jesse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10062043
