Lost paradise : symbolist Europe : [exhibition / organized by Pierre Théberge ; chief curator, Jean Clair].

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Book
Language
English
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Montreal, Quebec : Montreal Museum of Fine Arts : Distributed by St. Martin's Press in the United States, ©1995.
Description
552 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

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    • Exhibition organised by Pierre Théberge.
    • Catalog of an exhibition held at the Montreal Museum of the Arts, June 8-Oct. 15, 1995.
    • Illustrated lining papers.
    • French edition published under title: Paradis perdus, l'Europe symboliste.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 533-552).
    Contents
    • 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.
    Other title(s)
    • Lost paradise, symbolist Europe
    • Symbolist Europe
    ISBN
    • 2891921941
    • 9782891921947
    LCCN
    96135279
    OCLC
    33018647
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