Research Catalog

Title

Decadence and dark dreams : Belgian Symbolism / edited by Ralph Gleis.

Publication

• Munich, Germany : Hirmer Verlag, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gleis, Ralph
• Alte Nationalgalerie (Germany), host institution.

Description

335 page : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits; 30 cm

Summary

"Enigmatic magic, erotic sensuality and dark dreamworlds all characterise Symbolism, which evolved as an art current from the 1880s on - with Brussels advancing to become a centre of activity in the development of European art. The tendency towards the morbid and the decadent was most pronounced in Belgian Symbolism. Many of the impulses for this avant-garde came from Belgian artists, such as the disreputable Félicien Rops, the subtle Fernand Khnopff, the occult Jean Delville and the eccentric Léon Spilliaert and James Ensor."--back cover.

Alternative Title

Belgian Symbolism

Subject

• Symbolism (Art movement) > Belgium > Exhibitions
• Art, Belgian > Exhibitions
• Art, Belgian
• Symbolism (Art movement)
• Belgium

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, September 18, 2020-January 17, 2021--Colophon.
• Artists include: Arthur Craco ; William Degouve de Nuncques ; Jean Delville ; Charles Doudelet ; Paul Dubois ; James Ensor ; Henri Evenepoel ; Émile Fabry ; Léon Frédéric ; Henry De Groux ; Fernand Khnopff ; Eugène Laermans ; Georges Le Brun ; Xavier Mellery ; Charles Mertens George Minne ; Constant Montald ; Émile Motte ; Jean-François Portaels ; Félicien Rops ; Victor Rousseau ; Juliette Samuel-Blum ; Léon Spilliaert ; Charles van der Stappen ; Théo Van Rysselberghe ; Antoine Wiertz.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Essays. Between morbidity and decadence: Belgian symbolism / Ralph Gleis -- Meaning as sound: On symbolism as a European phenomenon / Hans Körner -- A hothouse for symbolist art: The exhibitions of Les XX and La Libre Esthéthique / Jane Block -- The symbolist moment: Reflections on its origins in Belgium / Michel Draguet -- Relived past: The reception of the Middle Ages in Belgian symbolism / Johan De Smet -- Artistic interactions: German-Belgian art transfer at the fin de siècle / Inga Rossi-Schrimpf -- Awakened from a marble sleep: On symbolist sculpture in Belgium / Yvette Deseyve -- Across borders: Book and illustration art between Belgium and the German-speaking world / Maja Brodrecht -- Catalogue. Decadence and dark dreams: Belgian symbolism -- Woman as enigma -- Rendezvous with death -- Brussels and the emergence of the avant-gardes -- The awakening of the subconscious -- Dreamt nature -- The soul of things -- The harmony of the arts -- Beyond illustration -- Flights of fancy -- The artist as priest -- The neurotic artist and death -- Beauty and madness -- In search of the myth.

Call Number

JQF 21-108

ISBN

• 9783777435244
• 3777435244

OCLC

1183430912

Title

Decadence and dark dreams : Belgian Symbolism / edited by Ralph Gleis.

Publisher

Munich, Germany : Hirmer Verlag, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Gleis, Ralph, editor.

Alte Nationalgalerie (Germany), host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 21-108