Dandyism as Monumental-Political ethos
Van Deyssel and the Walking Utopia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6055820 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Geertjan De Vugt (0000-0003-4653-4051, Tilburg University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 57-78 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dutch Crossing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-6564 • E-ISSN: 1759-7854 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/0309656412z.00000000025 |
| OpenAlex | W2141429614 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Dandyism is seldom studied for its political dimension. Often histories of dandies represent these idiosyncratic figures as being characterized by a typical l’art pour l’art attitude. In the literary history of the Low Countries, sharp tongued author Lodewijk van Deyssel has often been discussed as representing precisely this aspect of dandyism. However, it is this author’s reflections on dandysme that offer the cultural historian a perfect source for an investigation of the political aspects of dandyism. An attempt is made to lay bare the ideas on the relationship between politics and aesthetics, between politics and life, and between aesthetics and life that inform Van Deyssel’s perspective by reinserting a curious conceptual pair, het Monumentaal-Politieke, employed by Van Deyssel in its proper discursive context; that is, by reading it as part of a typical fin-de-siècle reflection on a community in decline. The cure Van Deyssel proposes is the dandy as a walking utopia carrying a promise of a choreographic community dancing to its own rhythm and harmony
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Close reading · Context (archaeology · Ethos · Harmony (color · Literature · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Utopia · Visual arts · History · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2021 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |