{"product_id":"dreamers-of-decadence-symbolist-painters-of-the-1890s-9780275742805","title":"Dreamers of Decadence: Symbolist Painters of the 1890s","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere have been few movements in the history of Western art as strange as that of the Decadents of the last quarter of the 19th Century. While public attention was preoccupied with the Impressionists  many painters were reacting in a totally different...and more imaginative way...to the grim horrors of the new industrial society around them. The roots of the Decadents  as these artists came to call themselves  were to be found in the poetic visions of the English Pre-Raphaelites of the 1850s. Their first great Continental exponent was a brilliant and neglected painter of the fantastic  Gustave Moreau; their most obvious expression was Art Nouveau  a style closely interwoven with sinuous and half-unconscious eroticism.  Philippe Julian takes the reader on a conducted tour through the bizarre symbolism of this half-forgotten world  introducing him to a large number of writers and artists. Many of these artists...Moreau; Toorop  the brilliant half-Balinese  half-Dutch painter and draftsman; the French Odilon Redon  the great master of Symbolist art; the Viennese Klimt; and the Belgian Khnopff...have been known for some time to a few enthusiasts; In this lively study their inventiveness and skill are explored afresh  and their fantastic imaginings and weird symbolism exposed to a sometimes ironic light.  Proud of their romantic appearance  extravagant habits  and outrageous conduct  the artists of the mauve nineties drew on a wide range of writers for their ideas  including not only Poe  Baudelaire  Swinburne  and Wilde  but also less well-known and stranger poets. The book ends with a short anthology of Symbolist themes taken from these writers  and 149 pictures drawn from museums and collection in the Europe and the U.S.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279825854517,"sku":"ByrdShop_0275742806","price":105.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780275742805.jpg?v=1780612378","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/dreamers-of-decadence-symbolist-painters-of-the-1890s-9780275742805","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}