Fin de siecle

Fin de siècle

Definition:

Fin de siècle is a French phrase that translates to "end of the century." In Arts writing, it is used to describe some works created at the end of the 19th-century (and no other).

In order to qualify as a piece worthy of the "fin de siècle" label, the work must contain (or, at least, have someone write that it contains) an aura of boredom, or even a faint dread that stops short of "impending doom." This must also be mixed with an evident knowledge - on the creator's part - of those social graces (particularly in the areas of dress, speech, affected mannerisms and interior decoration) that "everyone" followed in chic urban areas.

Wrap this all together in a painting or literary piece from the 1890s, and what have you got? Evidence that the Y2K phenomenon, in which The Worst was upon us, was nothing new.

Pronunciation: fahnd see·eck·la

Alternate Spellings: fin-de-siècle

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Doom: the end of the world. The judgment day

Fin de siclè
of, relating to, characteristic of, or resembling the late 19th-century literary and artistic climate of sophistication, escapism, extreme aestheticism, world-weariness, and fashionable despair. When used in reference to literature, the term essentially describes the movement inaugurated by the Decadent poets of France and the movement called Aestheticism in England during this period.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/207099/fin-de-siecle-style

Aestheticism

late 19th-century European arts movement which centred on the doctrine that art exists for the sake of its beauty alone, and that it need serve no political, didactic, or other purpose.

The movement began in reaction to prevailing utilitarian social philosophies and to what was perceived as the ugliness and philistinism of the industrial age. Its philosophical foundations were laid in the 18th century by Immanuel Kant, who postulated the autonomy of aesthetic standards, setting them apart from considerations of morality, utility, or pleasure.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/7474/Aestheticism

Decadent

any of several poets or other writers of the end of the 19th century, including the French Symbolist poets in particular and their contemporaries in England, the later generation of the Aesthetic movement. Both groups aspired to set literature and art free from the materialistic preoccupations of industrialized society, and, in both, the freedom of some members’ morals helped to enlarge the connotation of the term, which is almost equivalent to fin de siècle.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/154854/Decadent

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"[Morgan] William Shakespare wrote: This violent delights have violent ends;
[Prentiss] Leonardo Da Vinci said: He who does not punish evil commands it to be done;
[Reid] Stephen King wrote: Monsters are real and ghosts are real too, they live inside us and sometimes... they win;
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