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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.

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“David Carrier brings together the two disciplines of art writing and philosophy and uses one to illuminate and deepen the understanding of the other in an organic cyclical exchange that seems to have no limits. With his ambitious writing he has built a domain outside narrow thinking, where horizons are wide and open, as befits an authentic explorer.”

—Sean Scully

High Art Baudelaire and the Origins of Modernist

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      Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 29/05/1996
      ISBN13: 9780271015279, 978-0271015279
      ISBN10: 0271015276

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review

      “David Carrier brings together the two disciplines of art writing and philosophy and uses one to illuminate and deepen the understanding of the other in an organic cyclical exchange that seems to have no limits. With his ambitious writing he has built a domain outside narrow thinking, where horizons are wide and open, as befits an authentic explorer.”

      —Sean Scully

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