Lost Paradise: Symbolist Europe

Lost Paradise: Symbolist Europe by Musee Des Beaux-Arts De Montreal. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9782891921947.

Exhibition held June 8-Oct. 15, 1995 at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Includes bibliographical references (p. 533-552) Foreword / Pierre Theberge Lost Paradise / Jean Clair I. The Waning of Culture / Guy Cogeval. At the Threshold of Symbolism: Van Goghs "Sower" and Gauguins "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.