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The Fetish of Silence and the Femme Fragile: Paul Gauguin's Decadent Imagination & the Concept and Culture of the Fin-de-Siècle
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Symbolism was characterised by its revolt against positivism and science, proclaiming that its goal was, in the words of Gustave Kahn, to "objectify the subjective (the exteriorization of an idea), rather than to subjectify the objective (nature seen through a temperament)." Artists active in the Symbolist tendency, roughly during the years 1870-1910, varied widely in style, but were unified in their extreme subjectivity and their concentration on a limited number of motifs, among which the nature of woman is perhaps the most significant, with woman viewed as an evil or destructive force forming the primary subsection of this motif. Because of the concern with ideas rather than the accidents of external reality, Symbolist artists tended to think in terms of types rather than individuals, and to perpetuate these archetypal images as dogmas in countless variations intended as idealistic proof demonstrating a truth far more convincingly than the disturbing evidence of facts might.

Professor Reinhold Heller, from the exhibition catalogue THE EARTHLY CHIMERA AND THE FEMME FATALE: FEAR OF WOMAN IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART Organized by the Department of Art, University of Chicago, 1981.

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