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Four French Symbolists - A Sourcebook on Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, and Maurice Denis (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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Four French Symbolists - A Sourcebook on Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, and Maurice Denis (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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The first comprehensive, scholarly sourcebook/research
guide/bibliography on the major French Symbolists painters, this
work includes nearly 3,000 entries covering a variety of materials.
Each artist receives a primary and secondary bibliography with many
annotated entries. Art works, personal names, and subject indexes
facilitate easy access. The volume is designed for art historians,
art students, museum and gallery curators, and others interested in
this major art style of the last half of the 19th century and the
first quarter of the 20th century. Art museums and art libraries in
both the United States and abroad were gleaned for sources. This is
a unique and substantial research tool. Symbolism is one of the
most difficult art movements to define. Its primary meaning is the
representation of things by symbols, by the imaginative suggestion
of dreams and the subconscious through symbolic allusion and
luxuriant decoration. The writings of Charles Baudelaire on the
arts powerfully influenced the aesthetic theories of Symbolist
artists and critics from 1860-1900, much as Baudelaire's poetics
were the root of Symbolist literature. The Symbolist work, be it
painting or poem, is above all personal and revelatory, precious
not commonplace, reflecting and evoking a journey of the
imagination. French Symbolist artists explored this style,
attitude, and atmosphere from the 1880s to the early twentieth
century. This sourcebook organizes biographical, historical, and
critical information on four major French Symbolist artists: Pierre
Puvis de Chavannes (1824-98), Gustave Moreau (1826-98), Odilon
Redon (1840-1916), and Maurice Denis (1870-1943). The first three
artists are recognized asoriginators of the movement. Denis is
regarded as Symbolist's foremost theorist and profoundly religious
practitioner. Although all four artists have been the focus of
major retrospective exhibitions since 1990, no comprehensive
sourcebook/bibliography exists.
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