| Description |
319 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
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Includes index |
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Translated from the French |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Text in English |
| Subject |
Art, European -- 19th century.
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European literature -- 19th century.
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Symbolism (Art movement) -- Europe.
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Symbolism (Literary movement) -- Europe.
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| Author |
Dusinberre, Deke.
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| LC no. |
2006352137 |
| ISBN |
2080304925 |
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