GLAMOUR IN SIX DIMENSIONS: MODERNISM AND THE RADIANCE OF FORM
Book ID/图书代码： 03360008B28735
English Summary/英文概要： Glamour is an alluring but elusive concept. We most readily associate it with fashion, industrial design, and Hollywood of the Golden Age, and yet it also shaped the language and interests of high modernism. In Glamour in Six Dimensions Judith Brown looks at the historical and aesthetic roots of glamour in the early decades of the twentieth century, arguing that glamour is the defining aesthetic of modernism. In the clean lines of modernism she finds the ideal conditions for glamour-blankness, polish, impenetrability, and the suspicion of emptiness behind it all.
Brown focuses on several cultural products that she argues helped to shape glamour’s meanings: the most significant perfume of the twentieth century, Chanel No. 5; the idea of the Jazz Age and its ubiquitous cigarette; the celebrity photograph; the staging of primitivism; and the invention of a shimmering plastic called cellophane. Alongside these artifacts, she takes up the development, refinement, and analysis of glamour in Anglo-American poetry, film, fiction, and drama of the period. Glamour in 6 Dimensions thus asks its reader to see the proximity between the vernacular and elite cultures of modernism, and particularly how glamour was animated by artists working at the crossroads of the mundane and the extraordinary: Wallace Stevens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, Josephine Baker, D. H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, Nella Larsen, and others.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 魅力是一个既诱人又难以捉摸的概念。我们最直观地将其与时尚、工业设计以及黄金时代的好莱坞联系在一起，但它同样塑造了现代主义的美学语言与关注焦点。在《六维魅力》一书中，朱迪思·布朗追溯了二十世纪初魅力的历史与美学根源，提出魅力是现代主义的标志性美学特征。她认为，在现代主义简洁的线条中，孕育着魅力的空白感、光洁度、不可穿透性，以及其背后对虚无的隐忧。布朗聚焦于若干文化产物，这些产物在她看来共同塑造了“魅力”的内涵：二十世纪最具代表性的香水香奈儿5号；爵士时代及其无处不在的香烟；名人肖像摄影；原始主义的舞台呈现；以及名为赛璐玢的闪亮塑料制品的发明。除这些文化符号外，她还深入探讨了英美诗歌、电影、小说及戏剧中魅力元素的发展、精炼与解析。《六维魅力》由此引导读者观察现代主义民间文化与精英文化的交融，尤其揭示了艺术家们如何在平凡与非凡的交汇处激发魅力——美国诗人华莱士·史蒂文斯(Wallace Stevens)、F·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德、英国女作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫、20世纪著名非裔美国歌剧演员、舞蹈家及社会活动家约瑟芬·贝克、英国学者迈克尔·贝尔、美国小说作家，诗人格特鲁德·斯坦、美国作家内勒·拉森等人的创作实践。(Sandy)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 朱迪思·布朗(Judith Brown)是印第安纳大学英语助理教授。
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