Introduction to the symbolist generation. Post-impressionism or symbolism?; Symbol, symbolism, allegory; Symbolist theorists and critics; Anywhere out of the world; Under the influence of Saturn; Music before all else; The symbolist dream-world; Arabesques; Symbolism and psychoanalysis; Salome, the myth of the femme fatale; Symbolism and Art Nouveau; From symbolism to abstract art and surrealism -- The originators of symbolism. The Pre-Raphaelites spiritual angst; Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and painter; Edward Burne-Jones and the metaphysical world of legends; George Fredric Watts, or the art of teaching through pictures; Puvis de Chavannes, a new vision of Arcadia; Gustave Moreau, the assembler of dreams; Odilon Redon, the rule of the unconscious; Arnold Böcklin's Darwinian mythology -- Symbolism in France. 1. From naturalism to symbolism. Fantin-Latour: from the Batignolles studio to Wagnerian fantasies; Eugène Carrière's humanitarian symbolism; Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel; Paul Gauguin, an impressionist in search of the soul's colors; An article by Georges-Albert Aurier: "Symbolism in Painting--Paul Gauguin"; Gauguin's pictorial testament.
2. The symbolism of the Pont-Aven group. Emile Bernard and his quarrel with Gauguin over who fathered pictorial symbolism; The unstudied symbolism of Vincent Van Gogh; Gauguin's mystical disciple, Charles Filiger -- 3. The Nabis. The birth of the Nabi group; Sérusier the theorist; Maurice Denis's beautiful icons; Georges Lacombe, the Nabi sculptor; Paul Ranson, the occultist Nabi; The Nabi artistic canon -- 4. The esoteric symbolism of the Rose+Croix Salons. Joséphin Péladan, the paladin of idealist art; The disciples of Puvis de Chavannes; Georges de Feure, from symbolism to Art Nouveau; Moreau's students at the Rose+Croix Salons; The musical correspondences of Levy-Dhurmer; From symbolism to parody: Gustav-Adolf Mossa and Marcel Duchamp -- The spread of symbolism in Europe. 1. Belgium, the Netherlands, and Switzerland under the spell of the Rose+Croix. The satanic Félicien Rops; James Ensor, the disguised symbolist; Fernand Khnopff, or the retreat into oneself; Jean Delville, the quintessential Rose+Croix artist; Two portrayers of human suffering: George Minne and Emile Fabry; The nocturnes of William Degouve de Nuncques; The macabre probings of Jan Toorop; Lingering twilight of symbolism: Léon Spilliaert and Piet Mondrian; Ferdinand Hodler's pantheism; Carlos Schwabe, a mystic of death; Other Swiss artists influenced by symbolism -- 2. The Scandinavian countries. Sweden; Denmark; Finland; Edvard Munch: the torn self as source for the art work.
3. Central and Eastern Europe. The Russian artists Mikhail Vrubel and the devil's mystique; Polish symbolists; The retrograde career of Alphonse Mucha; František Kupka, from symbolism to abstraction -- 4. German-speaking countries. A German Puvis de Chavannes: Hans von Marées; Max Klinger, the engraver of life's dark side; Franz von Stuck's poisonous symbolism; Gustav Klimt and the consecration of Eros; Alfred Kubin and the lure of death; The kingdom of Hungary -- 5. English-speaking countries. A perverted Pre-Raphaelite: Aubrey Beardsley; Mackintosh and the mystique of plants; American analogies -- 6. Southern Europe. Death in the Engadine: Giovanni Segantini; Two painters of virginity: Gaetano Previati and Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo; An avatar of symbolism: the metaphysical art of Giorgio De Chirico; Picasso's blue period.
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