The Eighteen Nineties: A Review of Art and Ideas at the Close of the Nineteenth Century

With great insight, Holbrook Jackson brings alive and interprets the creative expressions of this vibrant decade. Each chapter deals with a leading figure, style, or trend, capturing with succinct and fluent prose the diverse personalities who held the stage. Jackson shows how it was a period of renaissance as much as of decadence -- and as such became the threshold to the modern era.