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In Praise of Cosmetics
Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne
Eris · Paperback · November 18, 2025
Reading lane: Film & Video Art
"Everything beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation." Nature, Baudelaire says, is ugly—and art is what saves us from it.
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Book Details
- Authors
- Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne
- Publisher
- Eris
- Published
- November 18, 2025
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Film & Video Art · Italian Literary Criticism
- Reading lane
- Film & Video Art
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Film & Video Art
Italian Literary Criticism
About This Book
"Everything beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation." Nature, Baudelaire says, is ugly—and art is what saves us from it. This wicked, brilliant fragment defends makeup not as deception but as devotion: a ritual rebellion against decay, chance, and animal life. To paint the face is to reject nature’s chaos and choose artifice—freely, proudly, and exquisitely.
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