In 1842, Deburau was inadvertently responsible for translating Pierrot into the realm of tragic myth, heralding the isolated and doomed figure — often the fin-de-siècle artist's alter-ego — of Decadent, Symbolist, and early Modernist art and literature.

The fin-de-siècle world in which this Pierrot resided was clearly at odds with the reigning American Realist and Naturalist aesthetic ( though such figures as Ambrose Bierce and John LaFarge were mounting serious challenges to it ).

Postmodernism ... can be used at least in two ways – firstly, to give a label to the period after 1968 ( which would then encompass all forms of fiction, both innovative and traditional ), and secondly, to describe the highly experimental literature produced by writers beginning with Lawrence Durrell and John Fowles in the 1960s and reaching to the breathless works of Martin Amis and the " Chemical ( Scottish ) Generation " of the fin-de-siècle.

) The term and the concept have been popularised in standard Serbian through short prose and plays by Vranje born fin-de-siècle writer Borisav Stanković.

The fin-de-siècle intellectual school considered the individual as only one part of the larger collectivity, which should not be viewed as an atomized numerical sum of individuals.

This vogue of summer holidays heightened in the fin-de-siècle epoch, when numerous " Grand Hotels " were built ( including places such as Sanremo, Lido di Venezia, Viareggio and Forte dei Marmi ).

Nietzsche's argument that " God is dead " coincided with his attack on the " herd mentality " of Christianity, democracy and modern collectivism ; his concept of the übermensch ; and his advocacy of the will to power as a primordial instinct, were major influences upon many of the fin-de-siècle generation.

The fin-de-siècle generation supported emotionalism, irrationalism, subjectivism and vitalism.

The fin-de-siècle mindset saw civilization as being in a crisis that required a massive and total solution.

Pierrot fin-de-siècle, ou, Les Métamorphoses d ' un masque.

Downtown Yangon is known for its leafy avenues and fin-de-siècle architecture.

The fin-de-siècle generation supported emotionalism, irrationalism, subjectivism and vitalism.

The fin-de-siècle mindset saw civilization as being in a crisis that required a massive and total solution.

* Melanie A. Murphy, Max Nordau's fin-de-siècle romance of race, NY.

Her mature drawing style shows clear traces of the visionary qualities of fin-de-siècle Symbolism and the romanticism of the preceding Arts and Crafts movement.

In sum, he provided an important transition between the neoclassical and academic styles of the 19th century and its fin-de-siècle and modernist departures.

The Zurenborg area hosts a high concentration of Art Nouveau and other fin-de-siècle style townhouses, many built between 1894 and 1906.

Zurenborg is an area in south-east Antwerp largely developed between 1894 and 1906 that features a high concentration of townhouses in Art Nouveau and other fin-de-siècle styles.

In search of an object: Organicist sociology and the reality of society in fin-de-siècle France.

Cappiello redesigned the fin-de-siècle pictures into images more relevant to the faster pace of the 20th century.

His detailed portrait of a decaying fin-de-siècle world is similar to those of Hermann Broch's The Sleepwalkers, Karl Kraus's The Last Days of Mankind or Stefan Zweig's The World of Yesterday.

In four elegant brothels, called " Flower Houses ", in fin-de-siècle 19th-century Shanghai ( Qing dynasty ), several affairs are described.

I, for one, rather regret that Schnabel didn't collaborate with the Budapest Quartet, whose rugged, athletic playing was a good deal closer to this pianist's interpretative outlook than the style of the Belgian group.

Prokofieff's outlook as a composer-pianist-conductor in America was, indeed, brilliant.

In a more pessimistic vein about the economic outlook, I suspect that the reservoir of demand for consumer goods and housing which was dammed-up during the Thirties and World War 2, is finally in the process of running dry.

And perhaps an observer of the vases will not go too far in deducing that the outlook of their makers and users was basically stable and secure.

The general intellectual outlook which had appeared in the eleventh century was now consolidated to a significant degree.

Greek civilization was swirling toward its great revolution, in which the developed qualities of the Hellenic outlook were suddenly to break forth.

In regard to Eichmann, it was to be found in the Nazi outlook, which contained a principle separate from and far worse than anti-Semitism, a principle by which the poison of anti-Semitism itself was made more virulent.

This was the chief reason for a so-so sales outlook given by two-thirds of 56 builders polled by the National Housing Center.

The traditional ascription of the whole book to the prophet Joel was challenged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by a theory of a three stage process of composition: 1: 1 – 2: 27 were from the hand of Joel, and dealt with a contemporary issue ; 2: 28 – 3: 21 were ascribed to a continuator with an apocalyptic outlook.

According to some scholars, the philosophical outlook of earliest Buddhism was primarily negative, in the sense that it focused on what doctrines to reject more than on what doctrines to accept.

Construction began during summer 1853, on a site some north-west of the original building, which was considered to have a better outlook.

Although noting in the introduction to ' The Protestors ' that ' Some recorded herein perhaps did not have " all the truth " — so the writer has been reminded ', Eyre nevertheless claimed that the purpose of the work was to ' tell how a number of little-known individuals, groups and religious communities strove to preserve or revive the original Christianity of apostolic times ', and that ' In faith and outlook they were far closer to the early springing shoots of first century Christianity and the penetrating spiritual challenge of Jesus himself than much that has passed for the religion of the Nazarene in the last nineteen centuries '.

" One of Lenin's challenges was distancing materialism, as a viable philosophical outlook, from the " vulgar materialism " expressed in the statement " the brain secretes thought in the same way as the liver secretes bile " ( attributed to 18th c. physician Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, 1757 – 1808 ); " metaphysical materialism " ( matter composed of immutable particles ); and 19th-century " mechanical materialism " ( matter as random molecules interacting per the laws of mechanics ).

In the East, Confucius ( 551-479 ), of the State of Lu, was China's most influential ancient philosopher, whose educational outlook continues to influence the societies of China and neighbours like Korea, Japan and Vietnam.

His plays and those of Aeschylus and Sophocles indicate a difference in outlook between the three mena generation gap probably due to the Sophistical enlightenment in the middle decades of the fifth century: Aeschylus still looked back to the archaic period, Sophocles was in transition between periods, and Euripides was fully imbued with the new spirit of the classical age.

Nietzsche was attracted to, among other things, Epicurus ' ability to maintain a cheerful philosophical outlook in the face of painful physical ailments.

Mountbatten was fond of Congress leader Jawaharlal Nehru and his liberal outlook for the country.

Overall short-term outlook was good and GDP growth has been above many EU peers.

" Christopher Norris declared that Orwell's " homespun empiricist outlook – his assumption that the truth was just there to be told in a straightforward common-sense way – now seems not merely naive but culpably self-deluding ".

Another important factor was probably the Tsarina's German-Protestant origin: she was definitely highly fascinated by her new Orthodox outlook — the Orthodox religion puts a great deal of faith in the healing powers of prayer.

Hungary's sovereign foreign currency debt issuance carries investment-grade ratings from all major credit-rating agencies, although recently the country was downgraded by Moody's, S & P and remains on negative outlook at Fitch.