Fernand Khnopff, Georges Rodenbach, and Bruges, the Dead City
1992; College Art Association; Volume: 74; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00043079.1992.10786516
ISSN1559-6478
Autores Tópico(s)Night-time city culture
ResumoThe image of the city of Bruges in the work of Fernand Khnopff, generally considered the most important of the Belgian Symbolist artists of the late 19th century, is here reinterpreted in light of the writings of the Belgian author Georges Rodenbach, whose influential novel Bruges-la-Morte not only made Bruges renowned as “the dead city,” but created for a generation of Symbolist artists and writers the quintessential image of the city as “soulscape.” Rodenbach's novel, along with his poems and essays, is shown to have greatly influenced specific depictions of Bruges by Khnopff.
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