Author: Edward Lucie-Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500181317
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Symbolic art - Romanticism and Symbolism - Symbolist movement in France - Gustave Moreau - Redon and Bresdin - Puvis de Chavannes and Carriere - Gauguin, Pont-Aven and the Nabis - Edvard Munch.
Author: Michelle Facos
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520255828
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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The Symbolist art movement of the late 19th century forms an important bridge between Impressionism and Modernism. But because Symbolism emphasizes ideas over objects and events, it has suffered from conflicting definitions. In this book, Michelle Facos offers a comprehensive description of this challenging subject.
Author: Henri Dorra
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520077683
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Presents the development and the aesthetic theories of the symbolist movement in art and literature
Author: Patricia Mathews
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226510187
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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"Art historian Patricia Mathews examines the artistic, social, and scientific discourses of fin-de-siecle France. Along the way, she illuminates the Symbolist construction of a feminized aesthetic that nonetheless excluded female artists from its realm. She analyzes contemporary cultural assumptions as well as theories such as social Darwinism, biological determinism, and degeneracy."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Philippe Jullian
Publisher: Conran Octopus
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Author: Professor Michelle Facos
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1472419626
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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The essays collected here, which consider artists from France to Russia and Finland to Greece, argue persuasively that Symbolist approaches to content, form, and subject helped to shape twentieth-century Modernism. Well-known figures such as Kandinsky, Khnopff, Matisse, and Munch are considered alongside lesser-known artists such as Fini, Gyzis, Koen, and Vrubel in order to demonstrate that Symbolist art did not constitute an isolated moment of wild experimentation, but rather an inspirational point of departure for twentieth-century developments.
Author: Thomas Negovan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781947528154
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The lost artworks of Art Nouveau master Alphonse Mucha, reprinted for the first time since 1899. See the complete series printed in full-color to scale with the original works, along with rare images and text that provides an introduction to mysticism for art lovers and an overview of occult ideas in aesthetic form.
Author: Andrei Pop
Publisher: Zone Books
ISBN: 1935408364
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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A groundbreaking reassessment of Symbolist artists and writers that investigates the concerns they shared with scientists of the period—the problem of subjectivity in particular. In A Forest of Symbols, Andrei Pop presents a groundbreaking reassessment of those writers and artists in the late nineteenth century associated with the Symbolist movement. For Pop, “symbolist” denotes an art that is self-conscious about its modes of making meaning, and he argues that these symbolist practices, which sought to provide more direct access to viewers and readers by constant revision of its material means of meaning-making (brushstrokes on a canvas, words on a page), are crucial to understanding the genesis of modern art. The symbolists saw art not as a social revolution, but as a revolution in sense and how to conceptualize the world. The concerns of symbolist painters and poets were shared to a remarkable degree by theoretical scientists of the period, who were dissatisfied with the strict empiricism dominant in their disciplines, which made shared knowledge seem unattainable. The problem of subjectivity in particular, of what in one's experience can and cannot be shared, was crucial to the possibility of collaboration within science and to the communication of artistic innovation. Pop offers close readings of the literary and visual practices of Manet and Mallarmé, of drawings by Ernst Mach, William James and Wittgenstein, of experiments with color by Bracquemond and Van Gogh, and of the philosophical systems of Frege and Russell—filling in a startling but coherent picture of the symbolist heritage of modernity and its consequences.
Author: Denise Mimmocchi
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Catalogue to accompany exhibition investigating two main streams of Symbolist art in Australia: works by artists who trained or lived overseas and drew directly from European Symbolist genres; and works by artists in Australia who referenced Symbolism to define a local experience.
Author: Diane Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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This work describes the concepts of Symbolist art used for this study and presents a sequence of the works and writings of five artists - Washington Allston at the beginning of the century, John La Farge and William Rimmer at mid-century, and George Inness and Albert Pinkham Ryder at the end. These five were selected after a lengthy survey of 19th and early 20th century American art. Although a broader selection might have been made, these particular artists successfully developed, at one point or another in their careers and with more or less clearly defined objectives, highly articulate visual art in the Symbolist mode, as well as writings about their Symbolist intentions (without using the term itself). In many instances, their words, as well as their art, recall those of artists like Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh, although predating the Europeans by several decades. The Symbolist works of these five Americans are analyzed along side their writings about art, as well as writings by the few major critics who understood their aesthetic intentions at the time, such as James Jackson Jarves, Charles de Kay, and Roger Fry. Not a survey, but rather a highly selective and suggestive
