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Symbolist Art Theories A Critical Anthology

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ISBN-10: 0520077687

ISBN-13: 9780520077683

Edition: 1994

Authors: Henri Dorra

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Henri Dorra, in his comprehensive new book, presents the development and the aesthetic theories of the symbolist movement in art and literature. Included are writings (many never before translated or reprinted) by artists, designers, architects, and critics, along with Dorra's learned commentary. Fifty photographs of symbolist works complement his encyclopedic coverage. Dorra traces symbolism and its roots from artist to artist and critic to critic from the 1860s to the early twentieth century. The decorative arts and architecture are examined as well as painting and sculpture. The Arts and Crafts movement, art nouveau, the work of Eiffel in France and Sullivan in the United States are all…    
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Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/8/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 396
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue: Baudelaire, Delacroix, and the Premises of Symbolist Aesthetics
Correspondences (c. 1852-56?)
Romantic Symbolists
Hand and Soul (1850)
On His Beata Beatrix (1871)
Letters to His Family (1854)
Poems by William Morris (1868)
Memories of Burne-Jones (1898)
An Early Appraisal of Puvis de Chavannes (1861)
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1886)
Gustave Moreau (1889)
Fine Arts: Odilon Redon (1882)
Excerpts from To Oneself (1898-1909)
Odilon Redon (1894)
A Symbolist Painter: Fernand Khnopff (1887)
The Ten O'Clock Lecture (1885)
Bocklin's Villas by the Sea (1895)
Conversations with Paul Gsell (1911)
Decorative Arts and Architecture
Gleanings from the Great Exhibition (1851)
The Decorative Arts in Modern Life (1877)
The Spiritual in Art (1884)
In Defense of the Tower (1887)
At the Universal Exhibition (1889)
Ornament in Architecture (1892)
A Clean Sweep for the Future of Art (1894)
Literary Symbolism
Baudelaire and the Decadent Movement (1881)
The Art of Poetry (1874)
The Unsettling of All the Senses (1871)
Interview with Stephane Mallarme (1891)
Small Talk - the Theater (1890)
Notes on Wagnerian Painting (1886)
A Literary Manifesto - Symbolism (1886)
The Post-Impressionists
Neo-Impressionism (1887)
Aesthetic and Technical Note (1890)
Introduction to a Scientific Aesthetics (1885)
Seurat (1891)
Anarchist Sympathies (1894)
Cloisonism (1888)
Ensor's Vision (1908)
Letters to Emile Schuffenecker (1885, 1888)
Symbolism in Painting: Paul Gauguin (1891)
Letter to Andre Fontainas (1899)
Letters on The Night Cafe (1888)
The Lonely Ones - Vincent van Gogh (1890)
Cezanne (1888)
Excerpts from His Letters (1904, 1906)
Nabi Principles (1889)
The Nabis in 1890
The "Saint-Cloud" Manifesto (1889-90?)
The Mission of the Artist (1897)
The Artists of the Soul
The Salons of 1895
Materialism in Art (1881)
In Search of the Holy Grail (1888)
Florence, Botticelli, La Primavera (1896)
The Artists of the Soul (1896)
Epilogue: Formalist Criticism and Harbingers of Surrealism
Post Impressionism (1911)
The French Post-Impressionists (1912)
Cezanne's Pure Form (1914)
The Funeral of Style (1902)
The Dissociation of Ideas (1900)
Barnum (1902)
The New Spirit and the Poets (1917-18)
Notes
Index