Decadentism

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Decadentism is a late 19th-century literary and artistic movement characterized by aestheticism, sensuality, and a fascination with decay and moral decline.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf art movement
literary movement
associatedConcept decadence
decay
degeneration
fin de siècle
hasCharacteristic aestheticism
anti-bourgeois attitude
art for art’s sake
artificiality
cult of beauty
dandyism
elitism
eroticism
exotic settings
fascination with decay
interest in moral decline
interest in perversion and vice
interest in taboo subjects
morbid themes
ornate language
pessimism
refinement of style
rejection of naturalism
rejection of realism
sensuality
symbolic imagery
use of synesthesia
world-weariness
hasKeyWork Les Fleurs du mal
The Picture of Dorian Gray
À rebours
hasMovementOrigin France
Italy
United Kingdom
hasNotableFigure Arthur Rimbaud
Charles Baudelaire
Gabriele D'Annunzio
surface form: Gabriele D’Annunzio

Guido Gozzano
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Oscar Wilde
Paul Verlaine
Stéphane Mallarmé
hasTimePeriod late 19th century
influenced early 20th-century avant-garde
fin de siècle culture
modernist literature
influencedBy Parnassianism
Romanticism
Symbolism
aestheticism

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Poèmes saturniens genre Decadentism
this entity surface form: Decadent literature
Poèmes saturniens literaryMovement Decadentism
this entity surface form: Decadent movement
Fêtes galantes literaryMovement Decadentism
this entity surface form: Decadent movement
Une Saison en enfer literaryMovement Decadentism
this entity surface form: Decadent movement
A Season in Hell literaryMovement Decadentism
this entity surface form: Decadent movement
Ma Bohème literaryMovement Decadentism
this entity surface form: Decadent movement
Illustrations for "Le Morte d'Arthur" movement Decadentism
this entity surface form: Decadent movement
The Savoy (illustrations) movement Decadentism
this entity surface form: Decadent movement
Under the Hill influencedByMovement Decadentism
this entity surface form: Decadent movement
Sagesse literaryMovement Decadentism
this entity surface form: Decadent movement
Les Poètes maudits (as concept originator) movement Decadentism
subject surface form: Les Poètes maudits
this entity surface form: Decadent movement
Félicien Rops movement Decadentism
this entity surface form: Decadent movement
Golem literaryMovement Decadentism
this entity surface form: Decadent literature
Charles-Marie-Georges movement Decadentism
subject surface form: Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans
this entity surface form: Decadent movement
Là-bas literaryMovement Decadentism
this entity surface form: Decadent movement
La cathédrale literaryMovement Decadentism
subject surface form: La Cathédrale
this entity surface form: Decadent movement
L’Oblat literaryMovement Decadentism
this entity surface form: Decadent movement
Michael Field (pen name of Edith Cooper and Katherine Bradley) movement Decadentism
subject surface form: Michael Field
this entity surface form: Decadent movement