The eighteen nineties; a review of art and ideas at the close of the nineteenth century (1922)
Jackson, Holbrook, 1874-1948 · New York, A.A. Knopf · leaf 43
the breadth and variety of a renaissance which strove totriumph over what was merely artistic. The movement of the Eighteen Nineties, however, whichhas most engaged the attention of writers, the movementcalled Decadent, or by the names of Oscar Wilde orAubrey Beardsley, the movement Max Nordau… … (o\-KK Desi(;n ok The SAiCRnAV KErJinr Christmas Supplkmknt (1890) /)i Wiliitiii Rothenstfin PERSONALITIES AND TENDENCIES 35 though only a part of the renaissance, it was sufficientlybrilliant, to use one of its own cliches, to dazzle thosecapable of being dazzled by the achievements of art…
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