The Painter of Modern LifePresent-day beauty: the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent

Written by Charles Baudelaire
Written in 1863
movements Impressionism
subjects Manifestos Art Theory

Chapters

Beauty, Fashion & Happiness

The Sketch of Manners

The Artist, man of the World

Modernity

Mnemonic Art

The Annals of War

Pomps and Circumstances

The Military Man

The Dandy

Woman

In Praise of Cosmetics

Women and Prostitutes

Carriages

Charles Baudelaire —
Waste your inheiritance, take opium, write poetry