Description - Lost Paradise by Jean Clair
The Symbolist movement developed in Europe during the second half of the 19th century and lasted approximately until World War I. Bringing about a revival of Neoclassism and Romanticism, it made its influence felt throughout Europe in all forms of art. Later examples of Symbolist art foreshadowed Fauvism, Expressionism and Surrealism. Published to coincide with the exhibition of Symbolist art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 1995, this illustrated book also contains 18 essays. It features artists from 17 countries, including Gustave Moreau, Maurice Denis, Odilon Redon, Edvard Munch, Auguste Rodin, Fernand Knopff, Ferdinand Hodler and Alfons Mucha. Reference is also made to films and documentaries of the period, and to the influence of Symbolism on writers such as Baudelaire, Mallarme and Nietzsche, as well as musicians such as Wagner and Debussy. The final part of the book examines the response of the Symbolists to the fin-de-siecle malaise, concentrating on the expressive power of colour, line and form in their search for new directions that ultimately led the way to abstract art.
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