Symbolist Roots of Modern Art
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781472419620
Subjects: Modernism (art); Symbolism in art; Arts and crafts movement
Description: "The essays collected here, which consider artists from France to Russia and Finland to Greece, argue persuasively that Symbolist approaches to content, form, and subject helpted to shape twentieth-century Modernism. Well-known figures such as Kandinsky, Khnopff, Matisse, and Munch are considered alongside lesser-known artists such as Fini, Gyzis, Koen, and Vrubel in order to demonstrate that Symbolist art did not constitute an isolated moment of wild experimentation, but rather an inspirational point of departure for twentieth-century developments"--