Épater la bourgeoisie or épater le (or les) bourgeois is a French phrase that became a rallying cry for the French Decadent poets of the late 19th century...
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intentionally employed by the far-right to troll leftist targets. Épater la bourgeoisie Schadenfreude Sealioning Shock jock Shock site "Edgelord (noun)"...
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Wood (1893–1998), US Art intervention Dadaglobe List of Dadaists Épater la bourgeoisie Happening Incoherents Transgressive art Destruction Was My Beatrice...
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Glossary of French words and expressions in English (redirect from A la mode)
the inherent risks. embonpoint a plump, hourglass figure. épater la bourgeoisie or épater le bourgeois lit. "to shock the middle classes", a rallying...
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cheap vehicle for some fast money, a few laughs, a touch of the old épater la bourgeoisie. It may also be that in the mind of their chief terrorist and propagandist...
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podcast" for its "contempt for social liberalism" and a desire to "épater la bourgeoisie". Both hosts supported Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic primaries...
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Experimental film Animation Dada Art intervention List of Dadaists Épater la bourgeoisie Hans Richter, Dadaism, New York: Thames and Hudson, 1965 "Magazine...
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(18)" (2023, on I've Seen a Way) Poetry portal Biography portal Épater la bourgeoisie "Baudelaire". Merriam-Webster. Norwich, John Julius (1985–1993)...
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scandale recipes to their advantage. Advertisement Cause célèbre Épater la bourgeoisie Herostratus Publicity Publicity stunt Streisand effect Martin, Gary...
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Archived 2015-11-06 at the Wayback Machine, Dada Companion, quoting Hugo Ball, La fuite hors du temps ([1946], 1993) p. 111 Sooke, Alastair (20 July 2016)....
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They were meant to be. They were playing the same old game again, épater la bourgeoisie, but this time round it wasn't called Dada or Existentialism or...
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Appropriation (art) Art intervention Cabaret Voltaire Noise music Épater la bourgeoisie Shock art Beatrice Wood: Mama of Dada (1993 documentary) Man and...
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the Baroness's elaborate costumes both critiqued and challenged the bourgeoisie notions of feminine beauty and economic worth. She adorned herself with...
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Appropriation (art) Art intervention Cabaret Voltaire Noise music Épater la bourgeoisie Shock art Beatrice Wood: Mama of Dada (1993 documentary) Man and...
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Appropriation (art) Art intervention Cabaret Voltaire Noise music Épater la bourgeoisie Shock art Beatrice Wood: Mama of Dada (1993 documentary) Man and...
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contemporaries of spend their time and talent looking for ways to Épater la bourgeoisie. According to the American poet and literary critic John Malcolm...
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Tzara took the form of coldly (or hotly) calculated insolence" (see Épater la bourgeoisie). In one instance, as part of a series of events in which Dadaists...
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Appropriation (art) Art intervention Cabaret Voltaire Noise music Épater la bourgeoisie Shock art Beatrice Wood: Mama of Dada (1993 documentary) Man and...
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Appropriation (art) Art intervention Cabaret Voltaire Noise music Épater la bourgeoisie Shock art Beatrice Wood: Mama of Dada (1993 documentary) Man and...
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"Better yet, come with all of your hair." He finished this letter with: "La vie est atroce." Soon after this Loy purchased a one-way ticket to Mexico...
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being an attack on the iconic Mona Lisa and traditional art, a stroke of épater le bourgeois promoting the Dadaist ideals. According to one commentator:...
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Appropriation (art) Art intervention Cabaret Voltaire Noise music Épater la bourgeoisie Shock art Beatrice Wood: Mama of Dada (1993 documentary) Man and...
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are homographic one-line jokes, or samples of absurd humor in the épater la bourgeoisie tradition, while his memoirs record the involuntarily humorous rhyming...
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Appropriation (art) Art intervention Cabaret Voltaire Noise music Épater la bourgeoisie Shock art Beatrice Wood: Mama of Dada (1993 documentary) Man and...
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embodying the childish antagonism of Jarry's irrepressible urge to 'epater la bourgeoisie.'" Record Collector called the album "a hall-of-mirrors audio play...
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" Duchamp's defacement of their icon was considered "a major stroke of épater le bourgeois." Thus it has been said that the "transformation of a cult...
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