04103nam 2200661 450 991081719760332120200414092842.01-5017-3124-610.7591/9781501731242(CKB)4100000010267210(DE-B1597)534541(DE-B1597)9781501731242(OCoLC)1141260432(MdBmJHUP)muse82958(Au-PeEL)EBL6122152(OCoLC)1143617478(MiAaPQ)EBC6122152(EXLCZ)99410000001026721020200414d2009 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGlamour in six dimensions modernism and the radiance of form /Judith BrownIthaca, New York ;London :Cornell University Press,2009.1 online resource (xiv, 199 pages) illustrations0-8014-4779-8 Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-193) and index.Perception : Chanel no. 5, Wallace Stevens, the sublime -- Violence : Scott Fitzgerald, fascination, Katherine Mansfield -- Photography : Virginia Woolf, grammar, desire -- Celebrity : 1910, the extinction of personality, Greta Garbo -- Primitivism : Wallace Thurman, Nella Larsen, Josephine Baker -- Cellophane : Florine Stettheimer, Gertrude Stein, blankness.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 Six 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.American literature20th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish literature20th centuryHistory and criticismGlamour in literatureModernism (Literature)United StatesModernism (Literature)Great BritainGlamourSocial aspectsUnited StatesGlamourSocial aspectsGreat BritainModernism (Aesthetics)Social aspectsUnited StatesModernism (Aesthetics)Social aspectsGreat BritainAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.Glamour in literature.Modernism (Literature)Modernism (Literature)GlamourSocial aspectsGlamourSocial aspectsModernism (Aesthetics)Social aspectsModernism (Aesthetics)Social aspects820.9355Brown Judith(Judith Christine),125427MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817197603321Glamour in six dimensions3970101UNINA