THE SYMBOLISTS

Philippe Jullian selected some of the finest and exciting examples of the symbolist artists and provided an account of their development and success. He also shows why they declined in popularity and were forgotten. Included are works of art from painters such as Delacroix and Burne-Jones, Composers and writers whose ideas and attitudes inspired the Symbolists such as Edgar Allan Poe, Baudelaire and Flaubert. Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and painting, seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism, anti-idealistic styles which were attempts to represent reality in its gritty particularity, and to elevate the humble and the ordinary over the ideal. Symbolism was a reaction in favor of spirituality, the imagination, and dreams. Out of Print. Condition: Very Good. Slight cover and dust jacker wear and spine corner bumps.