Dandyismus und Popkultur

Abstract: This article examines the figure of the dandy as a mixture of a literary, historic and idealized figure and traces the roots back to the 19th century to underline and understand the paradoxes and ambivalences of dandyism in popular culture today. The four characteristics are oscillation between being and seeming/fiction and reality, the body as an object of fascination and self-fashioning, coolness and wit and finally the power to fascinate and provoke at the same time, showing an eccentric behaviour and staying in the centre of interest at the same time. The ambivalences of dandyism start with the first dandy of all time, George Brummell, who, at the same time, reclined to be called a dandy and was therefore, according to the elaborations of this figure in anecdotes, essays, caricatures etc., not only the first but also the last dandy, an original never to be achieved again. The dandy manages to make itself a work of art, not only in the classical sense, but also in the sense of .... https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/index.php/pop/article/view/1052

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Deutsch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Dandyismus und Popkultur ; number:2 ; day:01 ; month:03 ; year:2013 ; Pop ; Heft 2 (01.03.2013)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Hörner, Fernand

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:6:3-20131111195
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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