Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2009
Journal / Book Title
Symbolist Objects: Materiality and Subjectivity at the fin de siècle
Abstract
This essay seeks to return Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac to his rightful place as an important but misunderstood innovator whose aesthetic experimentation of the 1880s exerted a profound influence on those who would come to be known as ‘Symbolists’. I juxtapose Montesquiou's written descriptions of his interior decorations at an apartment at 41, Quai d’Orsay in Paris with the little-discussed photographs he had taken of this residence, probably in 1887 or 1888, in order to illuminate the originality of his vision.
Book Publisher
Rivendale Press
Book Editor(s)
Claire O’Mahony
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Emery, Elizabeth, "Misunderstood Symbolism: Rereading the Subjective Objects of Robert de Montesquiou’s First Maison d’un artiste" (2009). Department of World Languages and Cultures Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 72.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/modernlang-literatures-facpubs/72
Published Citation
Elizabeth Emery, "Misunderstood Symbolism: Rereading the Subjective Objects of Robert de Montesquiou’s First Maison d’un artiste." In: Symbolist Objects: Materiality and Subjectivity at the fin de siècle. Ed. Claire O’Mahony. High Wycombe: Rivendale Press, 2009. 18-43.