Symbolist Art Theories
Subtitle: A Critical Anthology
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: September 8, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780520077683
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Literary studies: general; Theory of art; Symbolism (Art movement); Arts, European; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Criticism; Art / General; 19th century; 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."