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

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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.

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