Decadent Subjects: The Idea Of Decadence In Art... -

Artists and their audiences often felt estranged from society, mocking traditional moral rules and embracing sensualism and morbidity to scandalize the "bourgeois" middle class.

Friedrich Nietzsche , Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy, and Stéphane Mallarmé. Decadent Subjects: The Idea of Decadence in Art...

Figures like Salomé , the Sphinx, and the Medusa became central motifs, representing both a fascination with and a fear of shifting gender relations at the turn of the century. Key Figures Explored Artists and their audiences often felt estranged from