Mallarmé, Manet and Redon : Visual and Aural Signs and the Generation of Meaning

This highly original study is an examination of the many facets of Mallarmès relationship to the visual arts. Dr Florence proceeds by analysing Mallarmès writing on painting and literature, and its bearing on specific paintings, lithographs, and poems, These analyses reveal and define important common structures and innovatory developments, the coherence of which is masked by conventional histories of art. A new relationship is revealed between the word and the image which has significant implications for an understanding of the self and the world in these texts. The book is particularly original in two respects: first, it shows bow developments in verbal and visual innovation are interdependent in Mallarmès work; second, it integrates hitherto discrete traditions of the avant-garde in painting to present a new perspective on the history of modernism.Florence, Penny is the author of 'Mallarmé, Manet and Redon : Visual and Aural Signs and the Generation of Meaning', published 1986 under ISBN 9780521305709 and ISBN 0521305705.