From: Art Journal | Date: March 22, 1996| Author: Morowitz, Laura | COPYRIGHT 1996 College Art Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Current thinking rightly dissuades us from approaching any historical tendency or movement as a monolith. It's feminism(s) we need to look at, not Feminism, and modernism(s) rather than Modernism. Certainly the same could apply to Symbolism, an art movement whose borders are as tenuous and whose terrain as vague as those of any proto - avantgarde movement. The notion of Symbolism(s) served as a welcome leitmotif for the viewer making his or her way through the groundbreaking exhibitio...