Introduction -- The palace of symbolism -- The visual sources of Symbolist imagery -- The aesthetic -- The setting -- Leaders and critics -- The masters -- The works -- Symbolism perpetuated -- The plates -- Notes on the text -- Notes on the plates -- List of Symbolist painters
Summary
The Symbolists have until recently remained the unknown force of European nineteenth-century painting, hidden behind the brilliant success of the Impressionists, and lost in an oblivion to which the stark functionalism of the years following World War I condemned them. Now Philippe Jullian has selected some of the most exciting examples of the work of the Symbolist painters and provided an account of their development and success