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Symbolist Art in Context

Symbolist Art in Context

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ISBN10: 0520255828
ISBN13: 9780520255821
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Mar 31 2009
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.80
Language: English
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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