Chapter 5: The Science of Free Verse: Kahn and Seurat in 1886
James Kearns
From Symbolist Landscapes. The Place of Painting in the Poetry and Criticism of Mallarmé and His Circle (1989), pp. 123-44, doi:10.59860/td.c59f686
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| Part of the book: Symbolist Landscapes. The Place of Painting in the Poetry and Criticism of Mallarmé and His Circle James Kearns MHRA Texts and Dissertations 27 Modern Humanities Research Association Abstract. As the Impressionist cause gained ground, the aim of the cultural establishment and avant-garde alike (not to mention the painters themselves) was to defuse the conjunction of political and artistic change which Mallarmé had found in Manet's open-air work. This aim takes various forms in avant-garde art criticism published during the second half of the 1880s but one of the most important is its approach to Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism from 1886. Full text. This contribution is published as Open Access and can be downloaded as a PDF, or viewed as a PDF in your web browser, here: |