Symbolist Art in Context : An Ahmanson Foundation Book in Humanities - Michelle Facos

Symbolist Art in Context

By: Michelle Facos

Paperback | 31 March 2009 | Edition Number 1

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The Symbolist art movement of the late nineteenth century forms an important bridge between Impressionism and Modernism. But because Symbolism, more than the two movements it links, emphasizes ideas over objects and events, it has suffered from vague and conflicting definitions. In Symbolist Art in Context, Michelle Facos offers a clearly written, comprehensive, and accessible description of this challenging subject. Reaching back into Romanticism for Symbolism's origins, Facos argues that Symbolism enabled artists (including Munch and Gauguin) to confront an increasingly uncertain and complex world-one to which pessimists responded with themes of decadence and degeneration and optimists with idealism and reform.
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"The book contains a great deal of useful information and will prove a valuable textbook." Burlington Magazine "This book offers a straightforward definition of Symbolism as the starting point for investigating a complex and imprecisely understood art movement." Nordicum-Mediterraneum

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