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A partially annotated bibliography identifying and organizing literature on French Symbolist art in general while focusing on the four individual artists. Each section contains a biographical sketch, a chronology, primary and secondary bibliographies, and individual and group exhibition lists. Covers the artists' entire careers rather than just their Symbolist periods. The sporadic entries are not critical, but serve to clarify a work's contents or orientation when the title is over-sufficiently symbolic. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Review
Clement...offers another admirable sourcebook...Readers interested in only one of the artists should examine the entire book, since the materials and topics overlap. For serious art collections, and for dyed-in-the-wool devotees of late-19th- and early-20th-century art history.Choice

Book Description
The first comprehensive, scholarly sourcebook/research guide/bibliography on the major French Symbolist painters, this work includes nearly 3,000 entries covering a variety of materials. Each artist receives a primary and secondary bibliography with many annotated entries. Art works, personal names, and subject indexes facilitate easy access. The volume is designed for art historians, art students, museum and gallery curators, and others interested in this major art style of the last half of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th century. Art museums and art libraries, in both the United States and abroad were gleaned for sources. This is a unique and substantial research tool.

From the Publisher
Clement...offers another admirable sourcebook...Readers interested in only one of the artists should examine the entire book, since the materials and topics overlap. For serious art collections, and for dyed-in-the-wool devotees of late-19th- and early-20th-century art history.

About the Author
RUSSELL T. CLEMENT is Reference Services Coordinator, Humanities, John C. Hodges Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The first comprehensive, scholarly sourcebook/research guide/bibliography on the major French Symbolist painters, this work includes nearly 3,000 entries covering a variety of materials. Each artist receives a primary and secondary bibliography with many annotated entries. Art works, personal names, and subject indexes facilitate easy access. The volume is designed for art historians, art students, museum and gallery curators, and others interested in this major art style of the last half of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th century. Art museums and art libraries, in both the United States and abroad were gleaned for sources. This is a unique and substantial research tool.

SYNOPSIS

The first comprehensive, scholarly sourcebook/research guide/bibliography on the major French Symbolist painters, this work includes nearly 3,000 entries.

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