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English original: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Antes de entrar no assunto principal, eu gostaria de fazer três observações preliminares:
Eu hesitei em aceitar seu convite para falar sobre a figura do dândi, pois esse tipo de questão não é meu tema principal de interesse.
Eu finalmente aceitei porque redescobri um ensaio lúcido e magistral de Otto Mann, Read more …
John Everett Millais’ Isabella
John Everett Millais, Self-Portrait
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If you think of the Pre-Raphaelites you will probably be put in mind of flame-haired women in medieval dress or perhaps the depiction of a scene from a biblical or mythological story. The aesthetic appeal of such paintings seems to derive from a pre-modernist craving for something formally beautiful in its own right, without any sense of remove or cynicism. And if you consider that the tail end of the Pre-Raphaelite movement preceded the emergence of Dada by only a few years then it really does seem as though the Brotherhood marked a final statement in the history of Western art. Read more …