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Symbolist Art in Context
Michelle Facos
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Description for Symbolist Art in Context
Paperback. The Symbolist art movement of the late nineteenth century forms an important bridge between Impressionism and Modernism. This book argues that Symbolism enabled artists 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. Num Pages: 280 pages, 16 color, 86 b/w. BIC Classification: ACV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 180 x 19. Weight in Grams: 816. 280 pages, illustrations. The Symbolist art movement of the late nineteenth century forms an important bridge between Impressionism and Modernism. This book argues that Symbolism enabled artists 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. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: ACV. Dimension: 254 x 180 x 19. Weight: 816.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520255821
SKU
V9780520255821
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About Michelle Facos
Michelle Facos is Associate Professor of Art History at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of Nationalism and the Nordic Imagination: Swedish Painting in the 1890s (UC Press) and coedited (with Sharon Hirsch) Art and the National Identity at the Turn of the Century.
Reviews for Symbolist Art in Context
"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