Cultural passions: fans, aesthetes and tarot readers
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Main Author: Wilson, Elizabeth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London I.B. Tauris 2013
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-215) and index
Elizabeth Wilson is one of our most radical cultural critics. In Cultural Passions she transcends the division between 'high' and 'low' culture, exploring the emotional commitment people bring to the books, performances, objects and rituals in which they find meaning and challenging an enduring suspicion of the pleasure of the aesthetic. Ranging from Marcel Proust to tarot readings, from urban planning to interiors, Elizabeth Wilson investigates an underlying Puritanism in critical commentary on matters as wide ranging as Roger Federer and C S Lewis, Surrealism and fashion and the relationshi
Part 1: Cultural diseases. Introduction ; Pleasure's dangers ; Looking backwards: Nostalgia mode. -- Part 2: Fashion. Magic fashion ; Glamour: The secret behind the sheen ; Dressed to kill ; Camouflage and its vicissitudes ; Fashion and memory ; Urbane fashion. -- Part 3: The future we have lost. Austerity in retrospect: The glamour of masochism ; Post-war perverts ; Bethnal green. -- Part 4: Magic moments. Modern magic ; 'Disoriented agnosticism': Reading the Tarot ; Secret worlds ; Temporary gods ; Conclusion
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 222 p.)
ISBN:0857722182
1780762852
1780762860
9780857722188
9781780762852
9781780762869

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