Symbolist Art in Context

Symbolist Art in Context

Author: Michelle Facos

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2009-03-31

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0520255828

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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.


Symbolist Art

Symbolist Art

Author: Edward Lucie-Smith

Publisher:

Published: 1972-01-01

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780500181317

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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.


The Symbolist Roots of Modern Art

The Symbolist Roots of Modern Art

Author: Professor Michelle Facos

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2015-07-28

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1472419626

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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.


Symbolist Art Theories

Symbolist Art Theories

Author: Henri Dorra

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780520077683

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Presents the development and the aesthetic theories of the symbolist movement in art and literature


Symbolism

Symbolism

Author: Nathalia Brodskaïa

Publisher: Parkstone International

Published: 2023-12-28

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1783103981

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Symbolism appeared in France and Europe between the 1880s and the beginning of the 20th century. The Symbolists, fascinated with ancient mythology, attempted to escape the reign of rational thought imposed by science. They wished to transcend the world of the visible and the rational in order to attain the world of pure thought, constantly flirting with the limits of the unconscious. The French Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, the Belgians Fernand Khnopff and Félicien Rops, the English Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and the Dutch Jan Toorop are the most representative artists of the movement.


A Forest of Symbols

A Forest of Symbols

Author: Andrei Pop

Publisher: Zone Books

Published: 2019-10-18

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1935408364

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In this groundbreaking book, Andrei Pop presents a lucid reassessment of those writers and artists in the late nineteenth century whose work merits the adjective “symbolist.” For Pop, this term 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 the viewer 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 a revolution in sense and in how we conceptualize the world. At the same time, the concerns of symbolist painters and poets were shared to a remarkable degree by theoretical scientists of the period, especially by mathematicians and logicians who were dissatisfied with the strict empiricism dominant in their disciplines, and which made shared knowledge seem unattainable. A crisis of sense made art and science look for conceptual foundations underlying the diverging subjective responses and perceptions of individuals. Unlike other studies of this period, Pop’s focus is not on how individual artists may have absorbed bits of scientific theories, but rather on the philosophical questions that were relevant to both domains. 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’s brilliant 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 add up to a startling but coherent picture of the symbolist heritage of modernity and its consequences.


Beyond Symbolism and Surrealism

Beyond Symbolism and Surrealism

Author: Julia Friedman

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0810126176

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Beyond Symbolism and Surrealism sheds light on the oeuvre of Alexei Remizov (1877-1957), a great modernist eccentric who has remained largely unknown to Western audiences. Although his original prose garnered him early acclaim and has since entered the Russian literary canon, Remizov's artistic capacity was fully realized only after his experimentation with words and images culminated in a writing process that relies as much on drawing as it does on language. --


Dreamers of Decadence

Dreamers of Decadence

Author: Philippe Jullian

Publisher: New York : Praeger

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13:

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Many of these artists - Moreau; Toorop, the brilliant half-Balinese, half-Dutch painter and draftsman; the French Odilon Redon, the great master of Symbolist art; the Viennese Klimt; and the Belgian Khnopff --


Australian Symbolism

Australian Symbolism

Author: Denise Mimmocchi

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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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.


A History of Russian Symbolism

A History of Russian Symbolism

Author: Ronald E. Peterson

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 9027215340

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The era of Russian Symbolism (1892-1917) has been called the Silver Age of Russian culture, and even the Second Golden Age. Symbolist authors are among the greatest Russian authors of this century, and their activities helped to foster one of the most significant advances in cultural life (in poetry, prose, music, theater, and painting) that has ever been seen there. This book is designed to serve as an introduction to Symbolism in Russia, as a movement, an artistic method, and a world view. The primary emphasis is on the history of the movement itself. Attention is devoted to what the Symbolists wrote, said, and thought, and on how they interacted. In this context, the main actors are the authors of poetry, prose, drama, and criticism, but space is also devoted to the important connections between literary figures and artists, philosophers, and the intelligentsia in general. This broad, detailed and balanced account of this period will serve as a standard reference work an encourage further research among scholars and students of literature.