Le symbolisme -Michael Gibson-

"Un livre qui se parcourt comme les salles d'un musée imaginaire."
L'auteur : Michael Gibson est chercheur indépendant et philosophe. Actuellement rédacteur en chef de la Revue du patrimoine mondial d l'UNESCO, il écrit depuis trente ans des essais sur l'art pour diverses publications, parmi lesquelles l'International Herald Tribune. Il a également publié plusieurs livres, notamment des études sur Bruegle, Gauguin, Duchamp et Calder.
L'éditeur : Gilles Néret (1933-2005), historien d'art, journaliste et écrivain, a organisé plusieurs rétrospectives artistiques au Japon et fondé le musée SEIBU et la Galerie Wildenstein à Tokyo. Il a dirigé des revues d'art comme "l'Oeil" et "Connaissance des Arts" et reçu le Prix Elie Faure en 1981. Gilles Néret a édité pour TASCHEN les catalogues raisonnés des oeuvres de Monet, Velàzquez et signé Matisse et Erotica Universalis.

A key movement in modern art "To clothe the idea in perceptible form," proposed the poet Jean Moréas in his 1886 Manifesto of Symbolism. It was in France and Belgium, the cradles of literary Symbolism, that Symbolist painting was born. It plunged headlong into the cultural space opened up by the poetry of Baudelaire and Mallarmé and by the operas of Wagner. Symbolist painters sought not to represent appearances but to express "the Idea," and the imaginary therefore plays an important part in their work. "Dream" was their credo; they execrated, with a fanatical hatred, impressionism, realism, naturalism, and the scientistic. The main principle of Symbolism, that of "correspondences," was to attain harmony between all the different arts, or even to realise the total work of art (Gesamtkunstwerk) that Wagner had dreamt of creating. What we rediscover today, after a period of neglect, is this: Symbolist painting is essential to our understanding of modern art, not only because it spread across the world like wildfire, creating disciples from Russia to the United States, from Northern Europe to the Mediterranean, but because it was the source of a series of mutations without which modern art would not be what it is.

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255 pagina's. Boek in goede staat. Hardcover gebonden met stofomslag.
Afm.:30,7 x 24,7 cm
ISBN 3 8228 5031 4
Taschen 2006

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