LE SYMBOLISME
Auteur(s) : Jean-David Jumeau-Lafond, Pierre Pinchon (dir.)
In a world dominated by materialism, scientific progress and the consequences of the industrial revolution, Symbolism was a group of poetic and artistic expressions which, in the face of literary naturalism and pictorial realism, called for the right to dream and a return to interiority.
From the late 1880s onwards, painters, sculptors, writers and musicians turned away from reality to question the invisible and explore the idealist representation of the world. From Gustave Moreau to Paul Gauguin and Gustav Klimt, from Edvard Munch to Odilon Redon and Stéphane Mallarmé, and from Auguste Rodin to Claude Debussy, two generations of artists up to the eve of the First World War bore witness to a moment in civilisation when the hidden forces of art and life were explored to an unprecedented degree.
Co-edited and written by specialists in the art of the late nineteenth century, this book gives pride of place to the works, the starting point for all analysis. In this way, it fills a gap in the long-standing bibliography and makes it possible to hear the message, full of humanity and visionary richness, of Symbolist images.
