The half of art: on some motifs in Baudelaire, Marinetti, and Loy

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dc.contributor.authorColby, Sasha
dc.contributor.supervisorCarson, Luke
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-18T22:46:36Z
dc.date.available2025-07-18T22:46:36Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of English
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines the ways in which Charles Baudelaire's theory of modern beauty has been adapted by succeeding movements of the avant-garde. As such, Baudelaire's definition of modernity: "The ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent – the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable" serves as a reference point for an examination of the modernities of F.T. Marinetti and Mina Loy. Central to these discussions are Walter Benjamin's writings. By tracing Benjamin's theories of tradition, fascism, and Surrealism through the aesthetics of Baudelaire, Marinetti, and Loy, this thesis aims to investigate the ways in which the modern "experience" is construed by each.
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduate
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/22485
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Web
dc.titleThe half of art: on some motifs in Baudelaire, Marinetti, and Loy
dc.typeThesis

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