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Russian Dandyism: Constructing a Man of Fashion
2002In his book Remarkable Eccentrics and Originals, M. I. Pyliaev describes the famous Prince Kurakin, a fop of Catherine the Great’s era: Kurakin was a great pedant about clothes. Every morning when he awoke his servant handed him a book, like an album, where there were samples of the materials from which his amazing suits were sewn and pictures of ...
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Wilde and the Dandyism of the Senses
1997THE POSE OF INTENSITY AND THE CULT OF AESTHETIC RESPONSE IN THE 1880s AND 1890s When Oscar Wilde first rediscovered and began to write in Pen, Pencil and Poison' of the life and opinions of the Regency painter, belletrist, convicted forger and 'subtle and secret poisoner almost without rival', Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, he found revealed in the ...
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‘I am a Clown’: Lacan's Difficult Literary Dandyism
ParagraphJacques Lacan was a notoriously difficult and idiosyncratic thinker. But is there any value in his hermetically difficult style? By highlighting certain crucial elements of his practice, I show how Lacan enlists the notion of difficulty to press home that he did not want his readers to understand directly. Instead, as Foucault and Althusser explain so
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Dandyism, Circulation, and Emergent Cinema in Iran
Abstract The only surviving silent feature made in Iran, Mr. Haji the Movie Actor (released in 1934, as sound film production was ramping up in the country), contains abundant references to films that stretch across silent cinema history: from Georges Méliès and early chase films, through Richard Talmadge and Maciste, to Dziga Vertov andopenaire +1 more source