High Art: Charles Baudelaire and the Origins of Modernist Painting
Sherak, Constance, The Art Bulletin
DAVID CARRIER
High Art: Charles Baudelaire and the Origins of Modernist Painting University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. 220 pp.; 21 b/w ills. $39.50
In his preface to High Art: Charles Baudelaire and the Origins of Modernist Painting, David Carrier recalls the experience of wandering the streets and galleries of New York thinking, "What would Baudelaire say about this scene?" (pp. xvii-xviii). He attempts to answer this provocative question in the pages that follow. In teasing out this conundrum through the encounter of philosophy and art history, Carrier has revitalized Baudelaire's art criticism by making it relevant to the theorization of …
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Publication information:
Article title: High Art: Charles Baudelaire and the Origins of Modernist Painting.
Contributors: Sherak, Constance - Author.
Journal title: The Art Bulletin.
Volume: 79.
Issue: 4
Publication date: December 1997.
Page number: 731+.
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