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Anxiety, Angst, Anguish in Fin de Siècle Art and Literature

Anxiety, Angst, Anguish in Fin de Siècle Art and Literature

Title: Anxiety, Angst, Anguish in Fin de Siècle Art and Literature
Published by: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date: February 1, 2020
Contributors: Edited by Rosina Neginsky, Marthe Segrestin, Luba Jurgenson
ISBN13: 978-1527543836
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This volume examines various manifestations of anguish in art, literature, and philosophy. It demonstrates that the experience of anguish manifested itself in a spectacular way in the arts in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It makes obvious the extraordinary tension between anguish and art. The works discussed here reflect the magnitude of anguish generated by historical events, scientific advancements (especially in psychology), and metaphysical inquiries of the time. Through the invention of new artistic languages, those works also illustrate the fecundity of anguish for artists.




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Mental Illnesses in Symbolism

Title: Mental Illnesses in Symbolism
Series: Art, Literature and Music in Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences
Published by: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date: June 2017
Contributors: Edited by Rosina Neginsky
ISBN13: 978-1-4438-9126-4
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For the artists, writers and musicians of the Symbolist Movement of the turn of the century, true art, an extension of one’s “soul” or unconscious, was often regarded as dark, mysterious and unreliable – the world of Dionysus. Such artists, writers and musicians searched for symbols to express or suggest psychological pathologies manifested in exaltation, madness, and other extreme mental states. Mental Illness in Symbolism inquires into the mysteries of the Symbolist psyche through essays on works of art, literature and music created as part or extension of the Symbolist Movement.




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Light and Obscurity in Symbolism

Title: Light and Obscurity in Symbolism (Art, Literature and Music in Symbolism, Its Origins and Its)
Series: Art, Literature and Music in Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences
Published by: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date:
 January 1, 2016
Contributors: 
Edited by Deborah Cibelli, Edited by Rosina Neginsky
ISBN13: 978-1443885126
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The idea of light and darkness is one of the central ideas of the Symbolist movement, since this is a movement of contrasts. It encompasses the major themes of Symbolism, such as good and evil, beauty and ugliness, the visible and the invisible, and the divine and the earthly. This volume brings together a range of studies in order to understand the notion of light and darkness and a variety of its Symbolist interpretations. It also stresses the interdisciplinary nature of the concepts of light and darkness in Symbolism, as well as the cohabitation and symbiosis of both, which are together or separately at the core of this movement.




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Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences

Title: Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences
Published by: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date: January 2011
Contributors: Edited by Rosina Neginsky
ISBN13: 978-1-4438-2392-0
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The notion of the symbol is at the root of the Symbolist movement, but this symbol is different from the way it was used and understood in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. In the Symbolist movement, a symbol is not an allegory. The Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck defined its essence in an article that appeared on April 24, 1887, in L’Art moderne. He wrote that the notion of a symbol in the Symbolist movement is the opposite of the notion of the symbol in classical usage: instead of going from the abstract to the concrete (Venus, incarnated in the statue, represents love), it goes from the concrete to the abstract, from “what is seen, heard, felt, tasted, and sensed to the evocation of the idea.”

This volume attempts to give a glimpse into the power of the Symbolist movement and the nature of its fundamental and interdisciplinary role in the evolution of art and literature of the twentieth century. It records the studies of a group of scholars, who met and discussed these topics together for the first time in 2009. While illuminating the specificity of Symbolism in art, architecture and literature in different European countries, these articles also demonstrate the crucial role of French Symbolism in the development of the international Symbolist movement.

The authors hope that an expanding group, a society of Art, Literature and Music in Symbolism and Decadence (ALMSD), born out of the first meeting, will continue to further this discussion at future conferences and in the printed conference proceedings.