Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. List of Illustrations XI
4. Acknowledgments XV
5. Introduction XVII
6. PROLOGUE: BAUDELAIRE, DELACROIX, AND THE PREMISES OF SYMBOLIST AESTHETICS
7. Introduction 1
8. Correspondences (c. 1852-56?) 8
9. 1 ROMANTIC SYMBOLISTS
10. Introduction 12
11. Hand and Soul (1850) 17
12. On His Beata Beatrix (1871) 21
13. Letters to His Family (1854) 24
14. Poems by William Morris (1868) 26
15. Memories of Burne-Jones (1898) 30
16. An Early Appraisal of Puvis de Chavannes (1861) 35
17. Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1886) 40
18. Gustave Moreau (1889) 44
19. Fine Arts: Odilon Redon (1882) 48
20. Excerpts from To Oneself (1898-1909) 53
21. Odilon Redon (1894) 57
22. A Symbolist Painter: Fernand Khnopff (1887) 59
23. The Ten O'Clock Lecture (1885) 65
24. Bocklin's Villas by the Sea (1895) 71
25. Conversations with Paul Gsell (1911) 75
26. 2 DECORATIVE ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE
27. Introduction86 80
28. Gleanings from the Great Exhibition (1851) 86
29. The Decorative Arts in Modern Life (1877) 91
30. The Spiritual in Art (1884) 95
31. In Defense of the Tower (1887) 98
32. At the Universal Exhibition (1889) 102
33. Ornament in Architecture (1892) 110
34. A Clean Sweep for the Future of Art (1894) 117
35. 3 LITERARY SYMBOLISM
36. Introduction 125
37. Baudelaire and the Decadent Movement (1881) 128
38. The Art of Poetry (1874) 132
39. The Unsettling of All the Senses (1871) 136
40. Interview with Stéphane Mallarmé (1891) 139
41. Small Talk—the Theater (1890) 143
42. Notes on Wagnerian Painting (1886) 147
43. A Literary Manifesto—Symbolism (1886) 150
44. 4 THE POST-IMPRESSIONISTS
45. Introduction 153
46. Neo-Impressionism (1887) 157
47. Aesthetic and Technical Note (1890) 164
48. Introduction to a Scientific Aesthetics (1885) 167
49. Seurat (1891) 172
50. Anarchist Sympathies (1894) 175
51. Cloisonism (1888) 177
52. Ensor's Vision (1908) 182
53. Letters to Emile Schuffenecker (1885, 1888) 185
54. Symbolism in Painting: Paul Gauguin (1891) 192
55. Letter to André Fontainas (1899) 204
56. Letters on The Night Café (1888) 211
57. The Lonely Ones—Vincent van Gogh (1890) 218
58. Cézanne (1888) 227
59. Excerpts from His Letters (1904, 1906) 230
60. Nabi Principles (1889) 235
61. The Nabis in 1890 239
62. The "Saint-Cloud" Manifesto (1889-90?) 242
63. The Mission of the Artist (1897) 245
64. 5 THE ARTISTS OF THE SOUL
65. Introduction 252
66. The Salons of 1895 255
67. Materialism in Art (1881) 261
68. In Search of the Holy Grail (1888) 267
69. Florence, Botticelli, La Primavera (1896) 270
70. The Artists of the Soul (1896) 276
71. EPILOGUE: FORMALIST CRITICISM AND HARBINGERS OF SURREALISM
72. Introduction 280
73. Post Impressionism (1911) 286
74. The French Post-Impressionists (1912) 293
75. Cézanne 's Pure Form (1914) 295
76. The Funeral of Style (1902) 299
77. The Dissociation of Ideas (1900) 300
78. Barnum (1902) 306
79. The New Spirit and the Poets (1917-18) 308
80. Notes 315
81. Index 373