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Fine Condition in Fine Condition jacket. 200 pages. Hardcover, bound in orange colored cloth covered boards and wrapped in an illustrated paper dustjacket. Tight and solid binding, with a bright dustjacket encased in a Mylar sleeve, sharp corners and edges, and a clean interior free of markings. English language edition, translated from the original French edition by the author. 319 illustrations, including 56 tipped in color plates. Selected bibliography, with helpful capsule biographies of each of the represented artists.
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Fine in J Fine jacket. Folio Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 199 pp, Introduction: Between Progress and Decadence; I. France and the Rise of Symbolism; II. England: Affinities in a Cold Climate; III. Central Europe: A Shipwreck in Slow Motion; IV. Belgium: Sublimity and Solitude; V. Eastern Europe: Symbolism in a Different Context; VI. Scandinavia and the United States: The Protestant Fringe; VII. Italy and Spain: The Catholic Fringe; biographical notes, selected bibliography, index of artists and works, photograph credits with 319 illustrations including 56 tipped-in color plates. Translated from the French and Revised by the Author: First English Edition, 1988. "In their pursuit of a wholly subjective vision and their detachment of art from reality, the Symbolists marked a turning point in French painting, paving the way for many of the major developments in the art of the twentieth century. Emerging in France in 1885, simultaneously with its literary counterpart, the Symbolist movement came to encompass a diverse group of artists whose work was largely a reaction against the forces of realism in art and industrialism in society." from the jacket flap. Not Price Clipped. Inked inscription on ffep, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or Marginalia. Orange cloth with blind-stamped motif on front board, and blind-stamped gilt lettering to spine.
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F. First revised edition bound in orange blind stamped cloth with gold le ttering. 319 illustrations including 56 tipped-in color plates. 4to si ze, 199 pages. A Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket. The dust jacket has wrinkling to its edges. Includes Gustav Klimt, Aubrey Beardsley, Edvard Munch and others.