Dreamers of Decadence: Symbolist Painters of the 1890's VG- in Dust Jacket 1971

Description: Dreamers of Decadence: Symbolist Painters of the 1890's by Philippe Jullian 1971 first American edition, Praeger Publishers (New York), 7 1/4 x 10 inches tall orange cloth hardcover in publisher's price-clipped dust jacket, gilt design to front cover, gilt lettering to spine, copiously illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs and reproductions of artwork, 272 pp. Very slight light staining and edgewear to covers. Slight staining to page edges. Prior owner bookplate and inscription to front pastedown. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a very good dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. There 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. Artists include: Alastair; Maxwell Armfield; Christoph Tot Babberich; Henry Bataille; Aubrey Beardsley; Arnold Böcklin; Frederika Bodmer; Edward Burne-Jones; Eugène Carrière; Charles Clairin; Walter Crane; Jean Delville; Maurice Denis; Charles Doudelet; Émile Fabry; Federico Faruffini; Georges de Feure; Fidus (Hugo Höppener); Charles Filiger; Léon Frédéric; Paul Gauguin; David Gauld; Augusto Giacometti; Thomas Cooper Gotch; Henry de Groux; Thomas Theodore Heine; W. Holman Hunt; E. R. Hughes; Jeanne Jacquemin; Nicholas Kalmakoff; Wassily Kandinsky; Fernand Keller; Fernand Khnopff; Jessie M. King; Gustav Klimt; Max Klinger; Alfred Kubin; Frantisek Kupka; Antoine de La Rochefoucauld; Hubert de La Rochefoucauld; Ernest Laurent; Marcel Lenoir; Louis Lessieux; Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer; Pinky Marcius-Simmons; Henri Martin; Alberto Martini; Edgar Maxence; Luc Olivier Merson; John Everett Millais; Robert de Montesquiou; Gustave Moreau; Alphonse Mucha; Edmond van Offel; Alphonse Osbert; Maxfield Parish; Henry A. Payne; Pablo Picasso; Armand Point; Jan Thorn Prikker; Victor Prouvé; Pierre Puvis de Chavannes; Arthur Rackham; Paul Ranson; Odilon Redon; Louis Rhead; Melchior Richter; William Rimmer; George Rochegrosse; Félicien Rops; Dante Gabriel Rossetti; John Singer Sargent; Aristide Sartorio; Carlos Schwabe; Giovanni Segantini; Alexandre Séon; William Shackleton; Simeon Solomon; Carl Strahtmann; John Strudwick; Franz von Stuck; Jan Toorop; Elihu Vedder; Wilhelm Volz; A. Vroubel; J. F. Wagner; John William Waterhouse; J. F. Willumsen.

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