LEADER 04137nam 2200673 450 001 9910467230203321 005 20200414092842.0 010 $a1-5017-3124-6 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501731242 035 $a(CKB)4100000010267210 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6122152 035 $a(DE-B1597)534541 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501731242 035 $a(OCoLC)1141260432 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse82958 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6122152 035 $a(OCoLC)1143617478 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010267210 100 $a20200414d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGlamour in six dimensions $emodernism and the radiance of form /$fJudith Brown 210 1$aIthaca, New York ;$aLondon :$cCornell University Press,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 199 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a0-8014-4779-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [173]-193) and index. 327 $aPerception : 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. 330 $aGlamour 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGlamour in literature 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zUnited States 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zGreat Britain 606 $aGlamour$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aGlamour$xSocial aspects$zGreat Britain 606 $aModernism (Aesthetics)$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aModernism (Aesthetics)$xSocial aspects$zGreat Britain 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGlamour in literature. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aGlamour$xSocial aspects 615 0$aGlamour$xSocial aspects 615 0$aModernism (Aesthetics)$xSocial aspects 615 0$aModernism (Aesthetics)$xSocial aspects 676 $a820.9355 700 $aBrown$b Judith$g(Judith Christine),$0125427 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910467230203321 996 $aGlamour in six dimensions$92486131 997 $aUNINA