Neo-Impressionism and the Dream of Realities: Painting, Poetry, Music (Phillips Collection (Yale))

by Cornelia Homburg

Paul Smith, Laura D Corey, Simon Kelly, Noelle C. Paulson, and Christopher Riopelle

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A beautifully illustrated investigation of Neo-Impressionism in late 19th-century Paris and Brussels

This stunning catalogue explores the creative exchange between Neo-Impressionist painters and Symbolist writers and composers in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Symbolism, with its emphasis on subjectivity, dream worlds, and spirituality, has often been considered at odds with Neo-Impressionism’s approach to portraying color and light. This book repositions the relationship between these movements and looks at how Neo-Impressionist artists such as Maximilien Luce, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, and Henry van de Velde created evocative landscape and figural scenes by depicting emptiness, contemplative moods, Arcadia, and other themes. Beautifully illustrated with 130 color images, this book reveals the vibrancy and depth of the Neo-Impressionist movement in Paris and Brussels in the late 19th century.

Published in association with the Phillips Collection


Exhibition Schedule:

The Phillips Collection
(09/27/14-01/11/15)

  • ISBN10 0300190832
  • ISBN13 9780300190830
  • Publish Date 11 December 2014
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 21 February 2023
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Yale University Press