pGlamour is an alluring but elusive concept. We most readily associate it with fashion, industrial design, and Hollywood of the Golden Age, and yet it also shaped the language and interests of high modernism. In iGlamour in Six Dimensions, i Judith Brown looks at the historical and aesthetic roots of glamour in the early decades of the twentieth century, arguing that glamour is the defining aesthetic of modernism. In the clean lines of modernism she finds the ideal conditions for glamour-blankness, polish, impenetrability, and the suspicion of emptiness behind it all.ppBrown focuses on several cultural products that she argues helped to shape glamour's meanings the most significant perfume of the twentieth century, Chanel No. 5 the idea of the Jazz Age and its ubiquitous cigarette the celebrity photograph the staging of primitivism and the invention of a shimmering plastic called cellophane. Alongside these artifacts, she takes up the development, refinement, and analysis of glamour in