A FOREST OF SYMBOLS

In A Forest of Symbols, Andrei Pop presents a groundbreaking reassessment of those writers and artists in the late nineteenth centur y associated with the Symbolist movement. For Pop, symbolist denotes an art that is self-conscious about its modes of making meani ng, and he argues that these symbolist practices, which sought to provide more direct access to viewers and readers by constant revi sion of its material means of meaning-making (brushstrokes on a canvas, words on a page), are crucial to understanding the genesis o f modern a...[Read more]