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Ann Kennedy Smith
Painted Poetry
Colour in Baudelaire’s
Art Criticism
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Before becoming a poet, Charles Baudelaire was an art critic; and he
made his literary début with the
Salon de 1845.
Its failure to find a
receptive audience led him to write the groundbreaking
Salon de 1846
with its pivotal chapter on colour, in which Baudelaire challenged
fundamental critical concepts of art by insisting on colour’s complexity,
expressivity and modernity. Through a close reading of his critical
essays on art, this book examines how Baudelaire’s thoughts on
colour developed throughout his life and sets them in the context of
traditional views of colour. What effect did the new scientific theories
of colour harmony, filtered through his conversations with Delacroix
and other artists, have on Baudelaire? Why did he see Daumier as a
colourist, but not Ingres? What made him turn his back on French
art in 1859 and which artist changed his mind? Baudelaire’s interest
in a highly personal form of colour symbolism is investigated, as well
as the part that colour plays in developing his later, central idea of a
creative and poetic imagination capable of translating all the arts.
Ann Kennedy Smith is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and wrote
her doctoral thesis on Baudelaire’s art criticism at the University of
Cambridge. She lives in Cambridge and works as a freelance editor
and tutor for the Institute of Continuing Education at the University
of Cambridge and the Workers’ Educational Association.
www.peterlang.com
Painted Poetry
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Edited by Peter Collier
Volume 63
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Painted Poetry
Colour in Baudelaire’s art Criticism
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