The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
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The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays (1964) is the title of a Jonathan Mayne translation of Le peintre de la vie moderne and other texts by French writer Charles Baudelaire. It was reprinted in 1986 by Da Capo.
Excerpt on modernity:
- "By modernity I mean the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable."
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- The painter of modern life --
- The life and work of Eugène Delacroix --
- Edgar Allan Poe: his life and works --
- Further notes on Edgar Allan Poe --
- Wagner and Tannhäuser in Paris --
- On the essence of laughter --
- Some French caricaturists --
- Some foreign caricaturists --
- A philosophy of toys --
- Philosophic art.
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