Symbolist Art Theories
Subtitle: A Critical Anthology
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Published: June 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780520077423
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Literary theory; Theory of art; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Fine Arts; 19th Century Art; Special Subjects In Art; Architecture; Art; Symbolism (Art movement); General; 19th century; Arts, European; Europe
First sentence: "Our true fathers were Balzac and the Parnassians for the poets, Stendhal and some Merimee or other for the analysts...Zola...unconsciously turned art into the equivalent of the beautiful power of a motor."