Treatise on Elegant Living - Honore de Balzac painting Expanded Cinema clarifies a chapter

Expanded Cinema clarifies a chapter of countercultural history that is still not fully represented in the arthistorical record half a century later

illustrated in color & bw

A rediscovered literary classic

this 1969 guide to the ancient Japanese game of Go was not only the first such guide to be published in France (and thereby introduced the centuries-old game of strategy into that country) but something of a subtle Oulipian guidebook to writing strategies and tactics

Treatise on Elegant Living - Honore de Balzac painting Expanded Cinema clarifies a chapterTreatise on Elegant Living by Honor de Balzac ISBN 9780984115501 small paperback with flaps from Wakefield Press *** Honor de Balzacs 1830 Treatise on Elegant Living was a keystone text on dandyism, preceding Jules Barbey dAurevillys Anatomy of Dandyism (1845) and Charles Baudelaires The Dandy (in The Painter of Modern Life, 1863), and marking an important shift from the early dandyism of the British Regency to the intellectual and artistic dandyism