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A Forest of Symbols Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century

Hardcover • 2019 • English

A Forest of Symbols Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century

By Andrei Pop

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About the book

In this groundbreaking book, Andrei Pop presents a lucid reassessment of those writers and artists in the late nineteenth century whose work merits the adjective “symbolist.” For Pop, this term denotes an art that is self-conscious about its modes of making meaning and he argues that these symbolist practices, which sought to provide more direct access to the viewer by constant revision of its material means of meaning-making (brushstrokes on a canvas, words on a page), are crucial to understand...Show more

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ISBN

9781935408369

Publisher

MIT Press

Published year

2019

Language

English

Original title

A Forest of Symbols Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century

Format

Hardcover

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