A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century.

Amid divergent political views and aesthetic styles, this book tracks the symbolist movement across the long nineteenth century and in the last decades of that period as the movement gained incoherence after the consistent application of the term "symbolism" in I Le Symbolisme i , a manifesto published on 18 September 1886 (pp. 30-1). Andrei Pop, New York: Zone Books, 2019. Art "that works mainly by virtue of its meaning [ I sic i ]" is what Pop equates with symbolist art (p. 8). [Extracted from the article]