Symbolism

A great book ,more than I was expecting !!

This is the best art book I've bought in years. I have bought many.

227 pages of full color reproductions plus 20 pages of biographies.A great history of a great movement.The paper is smooth,glossy,wonderful.

This is a good book covering many pictures. The text does not dominate so much. There is also more width to it, as it covers important parts of the world art scene. I am no expert, i am more of an explorer into art, and i greatly appreciate this book, because it gives a taste of many different artists. Nice one!

This book is fantastic! Seemingly hundreds of gorgeous paintings including lots of discriptions of the paintings and their meanings. Beyond that, the book puts the art work in historical perspective with an explanation of the life and times of the people who created the paintings.Want to know the greatness of this work, just open to pages 94 and 95. Opposite each other on the two pages are the following: "The Angels of Night" by William Degouve de Nuncques in which "angels kiss in a ghostly, supernatural park" and "Satan's Treasures" by Jean Delville where "luxurious bodies lie sleeping among the seaweed and coral as Satan, with a dancer's agility, bestrides and takes possesion of them."In my opinion, symbolism in art is one of the most interesting topics in the world. This book is a fitting tribute to the topic.

Symbolism was a wide and international movement that grew out of the darker side of Romanticism; it was a rather catch-all label (in the same way Low-brow art is now) that harboured all manner of artists, from Decadents and Aesthetes, to perverts and absolute nut-jobs; it was all blown away by the First World War and the rise of Modernism that absorbed some of these artists as influences and discarded many to sidelines or oblivion.In these Post-Modernist times, Symbolism is being evaluated and rehabilitated, revealing some wonderfully imaginative work that still influences figurative artists who have been aware of the legacy of some individual painters and sculptors.This fine survey of the movement is very well illustrated with copious examples of work by artists across all disciplines and from all across Europe and America; many are obscure, though just as many are familiar as Modernist figures who were attached to Symbolism while it was still the identifying influence.A beautiful book to leaf through and a fairly useful commentary and handy primer on the movement.There's a short biographical index at the back which is helpful for anyone looking to further research any of the artists listed.

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