The End of a Century.  Facebook  TwitterTumblr (3.0; @thefindesiecle)http://thefindesiecle.com/Contemporary Decadence and the Trauma of Truth All for Nothing. Ward, Rachel K. New York: Atropos...http://thefindesiecle.com/post/9755385782http://thefindesiecle.com/post/9755385782Sat, 03 Sep 2011 15:10:00 -0400booksreviewdecadencefin de siecleliterature1800's1900's1890's Horror Timeline of the 1890s: In this decade, and into the next one, the Grand Guignol flourished ...http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8384140818http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8384140818Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:00:00 -0400literature1890sfin de siecleBritishAmericanbooks<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9s8arAEpr1qzuqcjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>“Portrait of an articulated skeleton on a bentwood chair” -<em> taken circa 1900, photographer unknown.</em></strong></p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://nicoleprima.tumblr.com/post/1244104765/portrait-of-an-articulated-skeleton-on-a-bentwood" target="_blank">{via nicoleprima</a>}:(<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2980051095/" target="_blank">source</a>)</p> </blockquote>http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8384069264http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8384069264Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:56:31 -0400vintage photograph1900s<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9yh3hpYJb1qzhl9eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Ectopagus (laterally conjoined) dicephalus dibrachius tripus twins.</p> <blockquote> <p>From Part IV of the collection of pictures of congenital abnormalities that form the basis of the four-volume atlas <em>Human Monstrosities</em> by Barton Cooke Hirst (1861-1935) and George Arthur Piersol (1856-1924), published 1891-93.</p> <p>From<em> <a href="http://www.collphyphil.org/Site/mutter_museum.html" target="_blank">Mütter Museum</a>: Historic Medical Photographs</em></p> <p><a href="http://liquidnight.tumblr.com/post/1540825428/ectopagus-laterally-conjoined-dicephalus" target="_blank">{via liquidnight</a>}</p> </blockquote>http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8384050618http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8384050618Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:55:35 -0400art and illustrationScience and Technology1890s<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lalvq0oF4x1qzd7qpo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>“All is Vanity” by C. Allan Gilbert. Life, death, and meaning of existence are intertwined. (Woman gazing into boudoir mirror forms shape of skull.) 1892.</strong></p> <p><a href="http://andmymouthisanhourglassofblood.tumblr.com/post/1360813074/all-is-vanity-by-c-allan-gilbert-life-death" target="_blank">{via andmymouthisanhourglassofblood</a>}</p> <blockquote></blockquote>http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8384030021http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8384030021Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:54:30 -0400art and illustration1890s<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_leu7f2YwNE1qb7dheo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong><a title="Weimar: Art and Modernity in Central Europe" href="http://weimarart.blogspot.com/2011/01/madness.html" target="_blank"><em>Expressive Head</em></a> (c. 1900) by Jaroslav Panuška.</strong></p> <p><a href="http://blueruins.tumblr.com/post/2692775681" target="_blank">{via blueruins</a>}</p> <p><a title="Weimar: Art and Modernity in Central Europe" href="http://weimarart.blogspot.com/2011/01/madness.html" target="_blank"></a></p> <blockquote></blockquote>http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8384004764http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8384004764Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:53:14 -0400fin de siecleSymbolist1900sart and illustration<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_leogve7h871qarjnpo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong><em>Grief, 1898, by <a href="http://weimarart.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Oskar Zwintscher.</a></em></strong></p> <p><a href="http://darksilenceinsuburbia.tumblr.com/post/2643364786" target="_blank">{via darksilenceinsuburbia</a>}</p> <blockquote></blockquote>http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8383987624http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8383987624Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:52:20 -0400art and illustrationfin de siecleSymbolist1890s<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lghugivzsK1qbplp4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>The Kiss of Death, Edvard Munche 1899.</strong></p> <p><a href="http://ellamorte.tumblr.com/post/3248340678" target="_blank">{via ellamorte</a>}</p> <blockquote></blockquote>http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8383971772http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8383971772Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:51:30 -0400art and illustrationfin de siecle1890sSymbolist<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj2tfynQf11qb7dheo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong><a title="kraftgenie's flickr photostream" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kraftgenie/4557846799/in/set-72157623743419164/" target="_blank"><em>Child with Skull</em> (1893) by Magnus Enckell</a>.</strong></p> <p><a href="http://blueruins.tumblr.com/post/4309141537" target="_blank">{via blueruins</a>}</p> <p><a title="kraftgenie's flickr photostream" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kraftgenie/4557846799/in/set-72157623743419164/" target="_blank"></a></p> <blockquote></blockquote>http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8383955977http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8383955977Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:50:40 -0400art and illustrationfin de siecle1890sSymbolist And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the...http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8383938594http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8383938594Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:49:46 -0400poetry1800sVictorianfin de siecle<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4mimyXPC51qa4s0qo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Aksel Gallen-Kallela, <em>Lemminkäinen’s Mother</em>, 1897. Tempera on canvas.</strong></p> <blockquote> <p><span>{via</span><a href="http://sealmaiden.tumblr.com/post/758771129/aksel-gallen-kallela-lemminkainens-mother-1897" target="_blank"> sealmaiden</a>:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gallen_Kallela_Lemminkainens_Mother.jpg" target="_blank">wikimedia}</a></p> </blockquote>http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8383915255http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8383915255Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:48:32 -0400fin de siecleart and illustration1890s<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8utt6sOke1qbvd9do1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span> </span><strong>Edouard Vuillard, Interieur a la Table à Ouvrage, 1893.</strong></p> <p><a href="http://madelinew.tumblr.com/post/1133125990/edouard-vuillard-interieur-a-la-table-a-ouvrage" target="_blank">{via madelinew</a>}</p> <blockquote></blockquote>http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8128253077http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8128253077Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:48:49 -0400art and illustrationFrench1890sfin de siecle<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9le4iXrHJ1qda7lmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Billiard Room at Menil Hubert-1892, Edgar Degas.</strong></p> <p><a href="http://stavritsa.tumblr.com/post/1219812185/billiard-room-at-menil-hubert-1892-edgar-degas" target="_blank">{via stavritsa</a>}</p> <blockquote></blockquote>http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8128232029http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8128232029Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:47:44 -0400art and illustration1890sFrenchfin de siecle<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lc54snSaK31qcxjtoo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>William Merritt Chase, Ring Toss, 1896.</strong></p> <p><a href="http://methsoradden.tumblr.com/post/1619440538/william-merritt-chase-ring-toss-1896" target="_blank">{via methsoradden</a>}</p> <blockquote></blockquote>http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8128194117http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8128194117Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:45:51 -0400art and illustration1890svictorianfin de siecle<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2jm9mFJsc1qb7dheo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong><a title="Olga's Gallery" href="http://www.abcgallery.com/T/toulouse-lautrec/toulouse-lautrec41.html" target="_blank"><em>At the Moulin Rouge</em></a> (1892-93) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.</strong></p> <p><a href="http://blueruins.tumblr.com/post/605631029" target="_blank">{via blueruins</a>}</p> <p><a title="Olga's Gallery" href="http://www.abcgallery.com/T/toulouse-lautrec/toulouse-lautrec41.html" target="_blank"></a></p> <blockquote></blockquote>http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8128177013http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8128177013Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:45:01 -0400art and illustrationFrench1890sfin de siecle<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfgbyzjCsc1qaseffo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>1898 Carl Larsson ‘Homework.’</strong></p> <p><a href="http://petitpoulailler.tumblr.com/post/2882595953" target="_blank">{via petitpoulailler</a>}</p> <blockquote></blockquote>http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8128160393http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8128160393Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:44:10 -0400art and illustration1890s<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhlr8uRwHB1qb7dheo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong><a title="Art in the Picture" href="http://www.artinthepicture.com/paintings/Vilhelm_Hammershoi/Bedroom/" target="_blank"><em>Bedroom</em></a> (1890) by Vilhelm Hammershoi.</strong></p> <p><a href="http://blueruins.tumblr.com/post/3664934535" target="_blank">{via blueruins</a>}</p> <p><a title="Art in the Picture" href="http://www.artinthepicture.com/paintings/Vilhelm_Hammershoi/Bedroom/" target="_blank"></a></p> <blockquote></blockquote>http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8128140283http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8128140283Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:43:10 -0400art and illustration1890sfin de siecle<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhxoi7e8NU1qdwo7go1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>J.J. Shannon, Jungle Tales, 1895.</strong></p> <p><a href="http://hoodoothatvoodoo.tumblr.com/post/3802336455" target="_blank">{via hoodoothatvoodoo</a>}</p> <blockquote></blockquote>http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8128120514http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8128120514Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:42:09 -0400art and illustration<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg7tx6VHg61qg0ouro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Felix Vallotton - <em>The Effect Of Light</em>, 1899.</strong></p> <p><a href="http://greenlamp.tumblr.com/post/3151186818" target="_blank">{via greenlamp</a>}</p> <p><span> </span></p> <blockquote></blockquote>http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8128090172http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8128090172Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:40:38 -0400art and illustration1890sfin de siecle<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_logbttgocE1r01ff5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Gustav Klimt, <em>The Old Burgtheater </em>(1888).</strong></p> <p><a href="http://zeitundgeist.tumblr.com/post/7704924462" target="_blank">{via zeitundgeist</a>}</p> <blockquote></blockquote>http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8128073956http://thefindesiecle.com/post/8128073956Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:39:49 -0400art and illustration1800sfin de siecle