Symbolist Art in Context
Title | Symbolist Art in Context PDF eBook |
Author | Michelle Facos |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 296 |
Release | 2009-03-31 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0520255828 |
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 in Context
Title | Symbolist Art in Context PDF eBook |
Author | Michelle Facos |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Art and society |
ISBN | 9780520254992 |
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 Theories
Title | Symbolist Art Theories PDF eBook |
Author | Henri Dorra |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 420 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780520077683 |
Presents the development and the aesthetic theories of the symbolist movement in art and literature
Symbolist Art
Title | Symbolist Art PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Lucie-Smith |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 1972-01-01 |
Genre | Art, Modern |
ISBN | 9780500181317 |
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 Symbolism of Paul Gauguin
Title | The Symbolism of Paul Gauguin PDF eBook |
Author | Henri Dorra |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 370 |
Release | 2007-02-20 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0520241304 |
"Modern Gauguin studies—complex interpretations of the works based on the identification of the artist's sources in ancient sacred art from around the world—began in the early 1950s with the pioneering research of Bernard Dorival and Henri Dorra. The Symbolism of Paul Gauguin: Erotica, Exotica, and the Great Dilemmas of Humanity, Dorra's ultimate meditation on the art of Gauguin, constitutes a milestone in the history of Post-Impressionism."—Charles Stuckey is an independent scholar and consultant
Beyond Symbolism and Surrealism
Title | Beyond Symbolism and Surrealism PDF eBook |
Author | Julia Friedman |
Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | 306 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0810126176 |
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. --
A Forest of Symbols
Title | A Forest of Symbols PDF eBook |
Author | Andrei Pop |
Publisher | Zone Books |
Total Pages | 321 |
Release | 2019-10-22 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1935408364 |
A groundbreaking reassessment of Symbolist artists and writers that investigates the concerns they shared with scientists of the period—the problem of subjectivity in particular. In A Forest of Symbols, Andrei Pop presents a groundbreaking reassessment of those writers and artists in the late nineteenth century associated with the Symbolist movement. For Pop, “symbolist” 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 viewers and readers 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 as a revolution in sense and how to conceptualize the world. The concerns of symbolist painters and poets were shared to a remarkable degree by theoretical scientists of the period, who were dissatisfied with the strict empiricism dominant in their disciplines, which made shared knowledge seem unattainable. 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 offers 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—filling in a startling but coherent picture of the symbolist heritage of modernity and its consequences.