A show of Symbolist paintings at the Guggenheim makes it clear that 19th-century France had an infinitely more interesting fin-de-siècle flip-out than we did in the 20th. Péladan was a writer whose ...

In late 19th century Paris an artistic movement to explore the mystical, from incubi to chimeras and femininity to saints as well as an assortment of mythological creatures was on the rise. What first ...

Most visitors to this show will be entering unknown territory. In the Paris of the early eighteen-nineties, the man of the moment was the novelist, art critic, and would-be guru Joséphin Péladan, who ...

Originally presented as the author's thesis, University of Chicago, 1968, under the title: Joséphin Péladan and the Salons de la Rose-Croix. https://siris-libraries ...

Alfred H. Barr Jr., the founding director of the Museum of Modern Art, once wrote that “those who love art or spiritual freedom cannot remain neutral… when one kind of art or another is dogmatically ...