Fin de siècle

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Fin de siècle is a cultural and literary period at the end of the 19th century characterized by decadence, aestheticism, and a sense of pessimism and transition.

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All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Fin de siècle canonical 1
Fin de siècle Vienna 1
Gay Nineties 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural period
associatedWithCountry Austria NERFINISHED
Belgium NERFINISHED
France NERFINISHED
Germany NERFINISHED
United Kingdom NERFINISHED
associatedWithMovement Aestheticism NERFINISHED
Art Nouveau NERFINISHED
Decadent movement NERFINISHED
Modernism (early phase) NERFINISHED
Symbolism NERFINISHED
associatedWithTheme artificiality
decay
degeneration
end of an era
nihilism
sexuality
urban anxiety
followedBy early 20th-century modernism
hasCharacteristic aesthetic refinement
aestheticism
anti-bourgeois attitude
apocalyptic imagination
art for art’s sake
cultural fatigue
decadence
decadent style
eroticism
interest in the occult
moral ambiguity
pessimism
sense of transition
symbolism
world-weariness
hasField literature
music
philosophy
social thought
theatre
visual arts
hasLiteralMeaning end of the century
hasOriginLanguage French
hasTimePeriod circa 1880–1900
late 19th century
influenced 20th-century avant-garde
early modernist literature
psychoanalytic culture
precededBy Victorian era NERFINISHED

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Divagations literaryPeriod Fin de siècle
Arrigo Boito movement Fin de siècle
this entity surface form: Scapigliatura
The Daughter of Rosie O’Grady (1950 film) eraDepicted Fin de siècle
this entity surface form: Gay Nineties
Leopold Museum hasCollectionStrength Fin de siècle
this entity surface form: Fin de siècle Vienna
En route literaryPeriod Fin de siècle
this entity surface form: fin de siècle