Frameworks for Mallarme

Gayle Zachmann

Description

Countering the conventional image of the deliberately obscure "ivory-tower poet," Frameworks for Mallarmé presents Stéphane Mallarmé as a journalist and critic who was actively engaged with the sociocultural and technological shifts of his era. Gayle Zachmann introduces a writer whose aesthetic was profoundly shaped by contemporary innovations in print and visual culture, especially the nascent art of photography. She analyzes the preeminence of the visual in conjunction with Mallarmé's quest for "scientific" language, and convincingly links the poet's production to a nineteenth-century understanding of cognition that is articulated in terms of optical perception. The result is a distinctly modern recuperation of the Horatian doctrine of ut pictura poesis in Mallarmé's poetry and his circumstantial writings.
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction

1. Frames of Reference I: Une exquise crise, fondamentale

2. Frame of Reference II: Le futur vers se dégage

3. Frames of Consciousness in “Igitur”: Devant le papier l’artiste se fait

4. Framed Works and Mallarmé: The steadfast gaze of a vision restored to its simplest perfection

5. Frame Works for Mallarmé: Dans l’oubli fermé par le cadre se fixe, de scintillations

6. Interartistic Frameworks: Employez des comparaisons prises à tous les arts, mais la poésie les résume

Coda: Exposing Change—Quotidian Frameworks and Developing Movements

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Sujets

• Película fotográfica
• History of art
• Visual culture
• Film
• France
• Europe

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 05 novembre 2008
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791477670
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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Frameworks for Mallarmé

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Frameworks for

Mallarmé

THE PHOTO AND THE GRAPHIC OF AN INTERDISCIPLINARY AESTHETIC

G AYLE Z ACHMANN

S TATE U NIVERSITY OF N EW Y ORK P RESS

Portions of this book have appeared in other publications. Chapter 4 includes material originally published as “Developing Movements: Mallarmé, Manet, the ‘Photo’ and the ‘Graphic,”French Forum22.2 (May 1997): 181–202, reprinted with permission from the University of Nebraska Press. Chapter 5 includes material originally published as “Frameworks for Mallarmé’s Photo- Graphics,”L’Esprit Créateur40.3 (2000): 39–49, reprinted with permission from the University of Minnesota Press, and “Offensive Moves in Mallarmé: Dancing withdes astres,” inConfrontations: Politics and Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century France,edited by Kathryn M. Grossman, Michael E. Lane, Bénédicte Mouret, and Willa Z. Silverman (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2001): 187–200, reprinted with permission from Rodopi. Sincere thanks to these publishers for granting permission to include this material in the book.

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Zachmann, Gayle, 1964- Frameworks for Mallarmé : the photo and the graphic of an inter- disciplinary aesthetic / Gayle Zachmann. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7914-7593-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898—Aesthetics. I. Title.

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Introduction:Picture this . . .

Frames of Reference I:Une exquise crise, fondamentale

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Frames of Consciousness in “Igitur”:Devant le papier, l’artiste61se fait

Framed Works and Mallarmé:The steadfast gaze of a vision restored to its simplest perfection

FrameWorksfor Mallarmé:Dans l’oubli fermé par le cadre se fixe De scintillations

Interartistic Frameworks:Employer des comparaisons prises à tous les arts, mais la poésie les résume

Coda: Exposing Change:Quotidian frameworks and developing movements

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