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Lost paradise : symbolist Europe : [exhibition

Title
Lost paradise : symbolist Europe : [exhibition / organized by Pierre Théberge ; chief curator, Jean Clair].
Publication
Montreal, Quebec : Montreal Museum of Fine Arts : Distributed by St. Martin's Press in the United States, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Théberge, Pierre.
  • Clair, Jean, 1940-
  • Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal.
Description
552 pages : illustrations (some color); 32 cm
Alternative Title
  • Lost paradise, symbolist Europe
  • Symbolist Europe
Subjects
Note
  • Exhibition held June 8-Oct. 15, 1995 at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 533-552).
Contents
  • Foreword / Pierre Theberge -- Lost Paradise / Jean Clair -- I. The Waning of Culture / Guy Cogeval. At the Threshold of Symbolism: Van Gogh's "Sower" and Gauguin's "Vision after the Sermon" / Debora Silverman. Music for the Eye: Wagner and Symbolist Painting / Gunter Metken -- II. The Self beyond Recovery / Jean Clair. From Anguish to Ecstasy: Symbolism and the Study of Hysteria / Rodolphe Rapetti. Closed Eyes, Symbolism and the New Shapes of Suffering / Petr Wittlich. "Of Oneself", "To Oneself": Symbolism, Individualism and Communication / Dario Gamboni -- III. The Homeland Regained / Gilles Genty. Belgium at the Turn of the Century: Nationalism without Borders / Gisele Ollinger-Zinque. Divisionist Painting in Italy: Modern Chromatics and New Symbols / Aurora Scotti-Tosini. Eugene Jansson and the Swedish Symbolist School / Ulf Linde. The Finnish View of Symbolist Painting: From Antinous Myth to Kalevala Mysticism / Salme Sarajas-Korte.
  • The Image of Death and the Myth of the Resurrection: Romantic Sources of Polish Symbolism / Agnieszka Lawniczakowa -- IV. The Cycles of Life / Guy Cogeval. Arabesques / Jean-Paul Bouillon. Microbes and Maladies: Bacteriology and Health at the Fin de Siecle / Barbara Larson -- V. New Territories / Gilles Genty. "Cette Enchanteresse Matiere": Symbolism and the Decorative Arts / Rosalind Pepall. The Dream of Beauty, or Truth Is Beauty, Beauty Truth: Photography and Symbolism, 1890-1914 / Ulrich Polhmann. Illustrated Symbolist Books / Gilles Genty -- VI. Towards Regeneration / Constance Naubert-Riser.
ISBN
2891921941
LCCN
96135279
OCLC
  • ocm33018647
  • SCSB-3280335
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