Nineteenth-Century French Studies provides scholars and students with the opportunity to examine new trends, review promising research findings, and become better acquainted with professional developments in the field. 1904 - John Singer Sargent, Lady Helen Vincent, Viscountess D'Abernon I defy anyone to point to a single scrap of beauty which does not contain these two elements. (800-02) 9. - this grandeur proud as Parian monuments Her jewellery is lavish yet simple, a gold bracelet and a long string of pearls. THE body may be clothed and reclothed, its shape and texture transmuted by the interventions of dress into a new thing each time, and any time. And it was obviously all a thousand times worth it. Consequently, the power of fashion in makeup and hair is truly head and shoulders above the importance of fashion in clothes. La Beaute During most of the past, cosmetics were made at home. Somewhere in between stood a slender young man with the perfect glow, looking almost inconspicuous in a mesh shirt made of safety pins. But most startling is the uniform whiteness of the make-up, overly artificial mimicry of aristocratic pallor. There are two main factors that are reflective of this period Lady Helens low dcolletage and her cinched, pigeon-breasted torso, which was achieved by new corsetry introduced in 1900. Fashion should thus be considered as a symptom of the taste for the ideal which oats on the surface of all the crude, terrestrial and loathsome bric-a-brac that the natural life accumulates in . Were made to wake in poets' hearts alone Artist Molly Soda makes makeup videos in which she talks about her insecurities, bad dates, and sometimes paints her whole face pink. As early as 1899, American women were advocating against corsets by forming the Good Health Club and arguing that these tight, constricting corsets were causing women to faint in public (Dorsey 103). I admit that she compels man to sleep, to eat, to drink and to arm himself as well as he may against the inclemencies of the weather: but it is she too who incites man to murder his brother, to eat him, to lock him up and to torturehim; for no sooner do we take leave of the domain of needs and necessities to enter that of pleasures and luxury than we see that Nature can counsel nothing but crime. From his youth he was psychically abnormal. Complement this particular portion of the wholly indispensable Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Literature with Susan Sontag on beauty vs. interestingness, poet and philosopher John ODonohue on beauty and desire, Ursula K. Le Guin on what beauty really means, and Frida Kahlo on how love amplifies beauty, then revisit Baudelaires timeless, acutely timely open letter to the privileged and powerful about the political and humanitarian power of art. Sasha Archibald is a writer and curator based in Los Angeles.