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The Symbolist Roots of Modern Art (Paperback)
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The Symbolist Roots of Modern Art (Paperback)
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With the words 'A new manifestation of art was ... expected,
necessary, inevitable,' Jean Moreas announced the advent of the
Symbolist movement in 1886. When Symbolist artists began
experimenting in order to invent new visual languages appropriate
for representing modern life in all its complexity, they set the
stage for innovation in twentieth-century art. Rejecting what they
perceived as the superficial descriptive quality of Impressionism,
Naturalism, and Realism, Symbolist artists delved beneath the
surface to express feelings, ideas, scientific processes, and
universal truths. By privileging intangible concepts over perceived
realities and by asserting their creative autonomy, Symbolist
artists broke with the past and paved the way for the heterogeneity
and penchant for risk-taking that characterizes modern art. 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.
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