Nature's Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form argues--rightly and boldly--that symbolism's stark formal experiments, which have so often been taken to point the way toward twentieth-century abstraction, were tied to an explorative scientific culture concerned with the s…
"Examines the influence of experimental science, concerned with the workings of the body, the mind, and their various pathologies, on the works of late nineteenth-century artists Maurice Denis, Édouard Vuillard, August Strindberg, and Edvard Munch"--Provided by publisher.
"Acclaimed for treading new ground in operatic studies of the period, Simon Morrison's influential and now-classic text explores music and the occult during the Russian Symbolist movement. Including previously unavailable archival materials about Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky, this …
Light and obscurity in symbolism
"The Belgian artist, illustrator, sculptor, and photographer Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921) became a popular society portraitist in the 1880s, using elements that had served him well as an avant-garde Symbolist painter: visual realism and a mood of silence, isolation, and reverie. …
Les 100 mots du symbolisme
by Cairn (Service en ligne), Aron, Paul, Bertrand, Jean-Pierre
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« En réaction au naturalisme de Zola comme à la poésie du Parnasse, à l'encontre aussi d'une certaine rectitude bourgeoise, certains écrivains ont, à partir de la fin du XIXe siècle, recherché un "possible" littéraire neuf, loin de tout mercantilisme. Cette aspiration au rêve, à…
