| Description |
319 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-316) and index. |
| Contents |
Guiding spirits -- The Pre-Raphaelites and George Frederic Watts -- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) -- Gustave Moreau (1828-1898) -- Arnold Bocklin (1827-1901) -- A subversive idealism -- Strange beauty -- Satanism and mockery -- Tradition and stylistic vocabulary -- "Idealism" -- Symbolism in its day -- Inventing symbolism -- Cloisonnism -- Symbolism, Neo-Impressionism, Divisionism -- Symbolism, decadence, naturalism -- Symbolist art -- Dematerialization and abstraction -- A synthesis of the arts -- "Decorative" art -- Moment and duration -- Myth and history -- Myth, history, national territory -- Mythological spaces -- Landscapes -- A magic language -- Enamored of instability, wary of rationality -- Hysteria: a new expressive repertoire -- The subconscious and new expressions of ego -- Chaos and chance -- The absent artist: discovering the art of the mentally ill. |
| Subject |
Symbolism (Art movement) -- Europe.
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Art, European -- 19th century.
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Symbolism (Literary movement) -- Europe.
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| Added Title |
Symbolisme. English
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| ISBN |
2080304925 |
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