Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

PROLOGUE: BAUDELAIRE, DELACROIX, AND THE
PREMISES OF SYMBOLIST AESTHETICS
Charles Baudelaire Correspondences (c.1852-56?)

ROMANTIC SYMBOLISTS
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Hand and Soul (I850)
On His Beata Beatrix (I87I)
Edward Burne-]ones Letters to His Family (I854)
Walter Pater Poems by William Morris (I868)
Fernand Khnop if Memories of Burne-Jones (I898)
Theophile Gautier An Early Appraisal ofPuvis de Chavannes (I86I)
Jules Lafargue Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (I886)
Loris-Karl Huysmans Gustave Moreau (I889)
Emile Hennequin Fine Arts: Odilon Redon (I882)
Odilon Redon Excerpts from To Oneseif(I898-I909)
Andre Mellerio Odilon Redon (I894)
Emile Verhaeren A Symbolist Painter: Fernand Khnopff (I887)
James McNeill Whistler The Ten O'Clock Lecture (I885)
William Ritter Bocklin's Villas by the Sea (I895)
Auguste Rodin Conversations with Paul Gsell (I9II)

2 DECORATIVE ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE
Owen jones Gleanings from the Great Exhibition (1851)
William Morris The Decorative Arts in Modern Life (I877)
Arthur H. Mackmurdo The Spiritual in Art (I884)
Gustave Eiffel In Defense of the Tower (I887)
Paul Gauguin At the Universal Exhibition (I889)
Louis H. Sullivan Ornament in Architecture (I892)
Henry van de Velde A Clean Sweep for the Future of Art (I894)

3 LITERARY SYMBOLISM
Paul Bourget Baudelaire and the Decadent Movement (I88I)
Paul Verlaine The Art ofPoetry (I874)
Arthur Rimbaud The Unsettling of All the Senses (I87I)
Jules Huret Interview with Stephane Mallarme (I89I)
Maurice Maeterlinck Small Talk-the Theater (I89o)
Teodor de Wyzewa Notes on Wagnerian Painting (I886)
jean Moreas A Literary Manifesto-Symbolism (I886)

4 THE POST-IMPRESSIONISTS
Felix Feneon Neo-Impressionism (I887)
Georges Seurat Aesthetic and Technical Note (I890)
Charles Henry Introduction to a Scientific Aesthetics (1885)
Gustave Kahn Seurat (I89I)
Paul Signac Anarchist Sympathies (I894)
Edouard Dujardin Cloisonism (I888)
Emile Verhaeren Ensor's Vision (I908)
Paul Gauguin Letters to Emile Schuffenecker (I885, I888)
G.-Albert Aurier Symbolism in Painting: Paul Gauguin (I89I)
Paul Gauguin Letter to Andre Fontainas (I899)
Vincent van Gogh Letters on The Night Cafe (I888)
G.-Albert Aurier The Lonely Ones-Vincent van Gogh (I890)
]oris-Karl Huysmans Cezanne (I888)
Paul Cezanne Excerpts from His Letters (I904, I906)
Paul Serusier Nabi Principles (I889)
Maurice Denis The Nabis in I890
Edvard Munch The "Saint-Cloud" Manifesto (I889-90?)
Ferdinand Hodler The Mission of the Artist (1897)

5 THE ARTISTS OF THE SOUL
Roger Marx The Salons of 1895
]osephin Feladan Materialism in Art (I88I)
In Search of the Holy Grail (I888)
Armand Point Florence, Botticelli, La Primavera (I896)
Octave Mirbeau The Artists of the Soul (I896)

EPILOGUE: FORMALIST CRITICISM AND
HARBINGERS OF SURREALISM
Roger Fry Post Impressionism (1911)
The French Post-Impressionists (1912)
Clive Bell Cezanne's Pure Form (1914)
Remy de Gourmont The Funeral of Style (1902)
The Dissociation ofldeas (1900)
Alfred ]arry Barnum (1902)
Guillaume Apollinaire The New Spirit and the Poets (1917-18)

Notes
Index

About the Author

Henri Dorra is Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of numerous books and articles on art and art criticism.