Description
The chart is an interactive lineage map. Fin de siècle sits at the center, on a timeline that runs from older movements at the top to newer ones at the bottom. The movements that influenced it appear above it, any parallel movements it developed alongside sit on its own row, and the movements it later influenced appear below. Every line is a real, cited connection between two movements: a solid line is an influence historians broadly agree on, and a dashed line is an indirect, parallel, or contested link.
For Fin de siècle (c. 1880 – 1914), it traces one movement that shaped it, an indirect or contested link: Aestheticism; it runs alongside one parallel movement, a well-established link: Art Nouveau; it fans out to one movement it went on to influence, a well-established link: Symbolism.
"Fin de siècle" (French: [fɛ̃ də sjɛkl] ⓘ) is a French term meaning 'end of century', a phrase which typically encompasses both the meaning of the similar English idiom turn of the century and also makes reference to the closing of one era and onset of another. Without context, the term is typically used to refer to the end of the 19th century. This period was widely thought to be a period of social degeneracy, but at the same time a period of hope for a new beginning. The "spirit" of fin de siècle often refers to the cultural hallmarks that were recognized as prominent in the 1880s and 1890s, including ennui, cynicism, pessimism, and "a widespread belief that civilization leads to decadence." Read more ↗
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