https://padlet.com/marcobassani/adoc1httmbl6 Realizzato con le migliori intenzioni en-us 2020-03-26 10:26:34 UTC 2020-03-26 13:52:19 UTC hello@padlet.com marcobassani https://padlet.com/marcobassani/adoc1httmbl6/wish/476470459 It was a doctrine devoted to elegance, originality and the search for style, mainly with regard to aesthetics, clothing and language.
Dandyism can be summarized in "Living life as a work of art".
the term dandyism derives from the dandy;the Dandy was the eccentric by exception, who was sure of his intellectual superiority, he knew how to amuse and amaze the public whether he was at a bar table or on a stage.


The prototype of the dandy was George "Beau" Brummell, who represented the main model of dandyism and was considered an arbiter of elegance for the time. The attitude then became widespread among young people, artists, poets, writers.



The poet Lord Byron merged the model spread by Brummell with Romanticism, adding to it the exotic, eccentric element, in which the pose of the dandy appeared casual, loose and sometimes almost wild.



In France, dandyism finds its maximum expression with the poet
Charles Baudelaire writes "The flowers of evil", which was the main reference for the current of French "Dandyism", writes: "Dandyism appears in periods of transition, in which democracy is not yet fully powerful and the aristocracy has just started to falter and fall. In the unrest of times like these, some men socially, politically and financially uncomfortable, but absolutely rich in innate energy, can conceive the idea of ​​establishing a new type of aristocracy, even more difficult to break down because it is based on the most precious and enduring faculties, and upon divine gifts which work and money are incapable of giving. "




After an almost complete disappearance of dandyism in England during the Victorian era, with the aestheticism movement the dandy phenomenon regained strength, above all thanks to the figure of Oscar Wilde. The clothes, as well as every aspect of their existence, had to focus on beauty and style in order to make life itself a work of art.

The greatest exponent of aestheticism in Italy was Gabriele D'annunzio with the work 'Il pleasura'. Immediately after high school he moved to Rome, at the time the cradle of the Belle Epoque, he became a reporter approaching both the masses and the elite, he participates in exclusive parties and dances, transforming himself into a real dandy, so much to declare: "I am a luxury man, I have the aesthetic of the superfluous, I am irresistibly attracted to the purchase of beautiful things ".


With the decline of the Aesthetic movement, the dandy phenomenon lost its philosophical-literary context and its deeper social motivations. However, there has been talk and still often talk of dandyism in a superficial sense in reference to extreme elegance and refinement in men's fashion.

A new form of dandyism can be detected in globalized contemporary society that would have started to develop from the 60s - 70s in what have been defined as youth fashions (from the first American teddy boys to modern neopunk). It would share with classic dandyism the element of vanity, exhibitionism and the masking of feelings through external appearances.

In the 70s of the 1900s, particularly in Anglo-Saxon pop and rock music, with figures such as David Bowie (in particular with the figure of the "Thin White Duke"), dandyism found prominent figures, both from the point of view musical, both as icons, which have shown a way for the British New Romantic movement. In the 80s this movement, which arose in the footsteps of these artists, had some important musical groups as representatives such as: Duran Duran, The Queen, David Bowie.]]> 2020-03-26 13:34:33 UTC https://padlet.com/marcobassani/adoc1httmbl6/wish/476470459