The Nabis and Intimate Modernism

An in-depth account of the Nabis' practice of the decorative, this book provides fresh perspective on an important but underappreciated group of late nineteenth century French painters. The author reconstructs the Nabis' relationship to Impressionism, mass culture, literary Symbolism, Art Nouveau, Wagnerianism, and a revolutionary artistic tradition in order to show how their painterly practice emerges out of the pressing questions defining modernism around 1900.