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Symbolist Movement: Artists
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Founded by Alfred Vallette to succeed La Pléiade, Mercure de France is far and away the most important periodical of the Symbolist movement. It outlasted Symbolism as well as a myriad other subsequent literary, artistic, political, etc., currents. During its seventy-five year existence Mercure was one of the single most important French intellectual and artistic journals. Its entire run is re-published here. The indexes for each year's issues of the Mercure have been consolidated in a single film sequence as well as being filmed in their original place.
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The Symbolist movement emerged in France in the second half of the nineteenth century. It was based on ideas shared between both artists and literary figures. Those ideas shared were a rejection of Realism and Naturalism. Unlike their preceding generation they saw art as being subjective, ambiguous, and mysterious, and instead of looking outward into the world for their subject matter, it came from their emotions, dreams, and spiritual psyche.
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It was the artists and intellectuals of the INTERNATIONAL SYMBOLIST MOVEMENT that formed around 1870 that provided a way to recast the most persistant of problems in the history of philosophy: the mind-body Problem. They held a third position in relation to conciousness: Panpsychism (everything is possessed of mind). They did not oppose the idea of science per se but wished only to substitute The Monad of the Medieval Alchemists, Giordano Bruno (1548 - 1600) and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) for the Atom of the Atomic Theory of John Dalton (1766-1844). The Monad of The Symbolists as opposed to the Atom could be studied by all from the scientist to the psychic.
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