Mallarmé on Fashion

Author: Stéphane Mallarmé
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
In 1874, Stephane Mallarme, the great French poet, undertook a highly idiosyncratic project--the publication of a fashion magazine called La Derniere Mode (The Latest Fashion)--that he almost single-handedly compiled. Using a variety of feminine and masculine pseudonyms to theorize about fashion and to advise on popular vacation destinations, home furnishings, and entertainment, Mallarmé created a spectacularly original work. The distinguishing feature of Mallarme's magazine is that it explores the nature of fashion from the inside. While it is a genuine fashion magazine, it also satirizes the entire genre. Various theories have been entertained about the work: it has been viewed as a prose poem, a hoax, and a cynical money-making venture. Furbank and Cain, however, argue that such guesses are hopelessly off the mark. Complete with the original artwork and a contextualizing introduction and commentary, this is the definitive translation of one of French literature's greatest enigmas.

Mallarmé in Prose

Author: Stéphane Mallarmé
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214513
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
A number of sections are devoted to Mallarme's great magazine of wit and opinion, La Derniere Mode, or The Latest Fashion, every page of which he wrote himself under various pseudonyms of both genders.

Selected Poetry and Prose

Author: Stéphane Mallarmé
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811208239
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
The essential work of Mallarmé, collected in a bilingual French and English edition.

Tigersprung

Author: Ulrich Lehmann
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262621717
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 586

Book Description
The history of modernity written as a philosophy if fashion, set in the cultural framework of Paris.

Mallarme

Author: Jacques Rancière
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441141820
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 111

Book Description
In this concise and illuminating study, Jacques Rancière, one of the world's most popular and influential living philosophers, examines the life and work of the celebrated nineteenth-century French poet and critic, Stéphane Mallarmé. Ranciere presents Mallarmé as neither an aesthete in need of rare essences and unheard-of words, nor the silent and nocturnal thinker of some poem too pure to be written. Mallarmé is the contemporary of a republic that is seeking out forms of civic worship to replace the pomp of religions and kings. If his writing is difficult, it is because it complies with a demanding and delicate poetics that is itself responding to an exceptional awareness of the complexity of an historical moment as well as the role that poetry ought to play in it.

The Book as Instrument

Author: Anna Sigrídur Arnar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780226027012
Category : Artists' books
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Anna Sigrídur Arnar explores how the book became a stretegic site for encouraging a modern public to actively partake in the creative act, an idea that informed later 20-century developments such as conceptual and performance art.

Mallarme On Fashion:

Author: Stephane Mallarme
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788170462842
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
In the later months of 1874, the great French poet, Stéphane Mallarmé, undertook a highly idiosyncratic project the publication of a fashion magazine (La Dernière Mode) that he almost single-handedly wrote and edited. Using a variety of feminine and masculine pseudonyms to theorize about the concept of fashion and to report and advise on women s clothing, popular vacation destinations, home furnishings and entertainment, Mallarmé created a spectacularly original work that lies somewhere between Baudelaire s seminal treatment of fashion in his essay on modernity, The Painter of Modern Life, and The Fashion System, Barthes brilliant semiology of clothing in the latter twentieth century. But the distinguishing feature of Mallarmé s magazine, and what differentiates it from the writing of Baudelaire and Barthes, is that it explores the nature of fashion from the inside. It is a genuine fashion magazine aspiring to lead fashion, though at the same time, by ingenious and appealing ironies, subtly satirizing this whole genre of writing. Complete with the original artwork and a contextualizing introduction and commentary, Furbank and Cain s definitive translation of one of French literature s greatest puzzles and surprises represents a major contribution to students, critics, theoreticians, and intellectual historians alike.

Selected Poems

Author: Stéphane Mallarmé
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520008014
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
"Mallarmé is our greatest poet.”--Jean Paul Sartre

Collected Poems and Other Verse

Author: Stéphane Mallarmé
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191623091
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description
'sense too definite cancels your indistinct literature' Stéphane Mallarmé was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets. His writings, with their richly sensuous texture and air of slyly intangible mystery, perplexed or outraged many early readers; yet no writer has more profoundly influenced the course of modern poetry - in English as well as in French. In both form and content, his poems created new ways of conveying existential doubt, fragmentation, and discontinuity. This is the fullest collection of Mallarmé's poetry ever published in English, and the only edition in any language that presents his Poésies in the last arrangement known to have been approved by the author. Apart from verse, it includes all the prose poems and the unique, unclassifiable Un Coup de dés... (A Dice Throw...). The lucid, wide-ranging introduction and invaluable notes help an understanding of this astonishing poet's work. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

The Book

Author: Stéphane Mallarmé
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781878972422
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
The French poet Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898) was modernism's great champion of the book as both a conceptual and material entity: probably his most famous pronouncement is 'everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.' The Book was Mallarme's total artwork, a book to encompass all books. Frequently quoted, sometimes excerpted, but never before translated in its entirety, The Book is a visual poem about its own construction, the scaffolding of a cosmic architecture intended to reveal 'all existing relations between everything.'