Author: Clair, Jean et al.
Title: Lost Paradise: Symbolist Europe
Description: Montreal, Quebec, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1995. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth, color illus. dust jacket, color illus. flyleaves, 554 pp. many BW & color illus.; weighs 6 lbs. Issued in conjunction with a 1995 exhibition. With an opening essay by Jean Clair, and 21 additional illustrated essays comprising the bulk of this sizable volume. A solid introduction to the subject. Contents as follows: 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. VGH/VG, light wear to dustjacket .

Keywords: European Art ; European Symbolism ; ; Museum Exhibitions - European Art


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