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Symbolism / Rodolphe Rapetti.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Paris : Flammarion ; London : Thames & Hudson [distributor], 2005.Description: 319 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 2080304925
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 704.946 RAP
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The result of over ten years of research, this work offers an in-depth analysis of the European Symbolist movement: its conceptual background, major characteristics, ramifications, known and less-well known works, and main personalities.

Translated from the French.

Includes index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction (p. 7)
  • Guiding Spirits (p. 19)
  • The Pre-Raphaelites and George Frederic Watts (p. 21)
  • Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) (p. 33)
  • Gustave Moreau (1828-1898) (p. 40)
  • Arnold Bocklin (1827-1901) (p. 47)
  • A Subversive Idealism (p. 53)
  • Strange Beauty (p. 54)
  • Satanism and Mockery (p. 69)
  • Tradition and Stylistic Vocabulary (p. 85)
  • "Idealism" (p. 100)
  • Symbolism in its Day (p. 104)
  • Inventing Symbolism (p. 106)
  • Cloisonnism (p. 116)
  • Symbolism, Neo-Impressionism, Divisionism (p. 124)
  • Symbolism, Decadence, Naturalism (p. 133)
  • Symbolist Art (p. 145)
  • Dematerialization and Abstraction (p. 147)
  • A Synthesis of the Arts (p. 175)
  • "Decorative" Art (p. 181)
  • Moment and Duration (p. 198)
  • Myth and History (p. 212)
  • Myth, History, National Territory (p. 215)
  • Mythological Spaces (p. 226)
  • Landscapes (p. 232)
  • A Magic Language (p. 244)
  • Enamored of Instability, Wary of Rationality (p. 254)
  • Hysteria: A New Expressive Repertoire (p. 256)
  • The Subconscious and New Expressions of Ego (p. 265)
  • Chaos and Chance (p. 283)
  • The Absent Artist: Discovering the Art of the Mentally Ill (p. 293)
  • Conclusion (p. 300)
  • Notes (p. 305)
  • Selected bibliography (p. 312)
  • Index of Proper Names (p. 317)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Rodolphe Rapetti is the director of the Musée Henner in Paris and the author of numerous works on 19th-century art.

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