A Sourcebook of Gauguin's Symbolist Followers - Les Nabis, Pont-Aven, Rose + Croix

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) played a seminal role in Post-Impressionist France. In his writings and work, he favored emotional responses to nature over intellectual uses of lines, color, and composition. In 1888 he and Emile Bernard developed a new style called Synthetism. Three groups of Gauguin's symbolist followers-Pont Aven, Les Nabis, and Rose + Croix pursued and extended the Synthetist vision. This sourcebook focuses on the most prominent adherents of the three schools directly affected by Gauguin's symbolism.

This is the first comprehensive, single-volume guide and bibliography of artists in these three important French avant-garde movements. This work covers the entire careers of 16 artists by providing biographical sketches, chronologies, citations to primary and secondary literature and exhibitions.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Gauguin's Symbolist Followers General Chronology, 1886-1900
Common Abbreviations
Symbolism in General
The School of Pont-Aven
The Nabis
Salons de la Rose and Croix
Artworks Index
Personal Names Index

About the author

RUSSELL T. CLEMENT is Reference Services Coordinator, Humanities, John C. Hodges Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His previous books include Georges Braque: A Bio-Bibliography (1994), Les Fauves: A Sourcebook (1994), and Paul Gauguin: A Bio-Bibliography (1991), all published by Greenwood Press. He is also the author of two exhibition catalogues and numerous journal articles and reviews.

Product details

• Authors: Russell Clement, Clement Russell T., Christiane Erbolato-Ramsey, Erbolato-Ramsey Christiane, Annick Houze, Houze Annick
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2004
• EAN: 9780313312052
• ISBN: 978-0-313-31205-2
• No. of pages: 968
• Weight: 1474 g
• Series: Art Reference Collection
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; ART / History / General, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Art, Painting & paintings, Paintings and painting, Popular Culture: Media, Television, and Radio