EDITH CUSHING'S COSTUMES Edith seems a typical carefree lady of the late 19th-century upper classes; her dress is sculptural to an extreme and the colouring is perhaps a reference to Symphony In Yellow, Oscar Wilde's short paean to decadence and the aesthetic movement.
During the first few years Hilsberg released records from everyone who set food in his studio with reckless abandon (bands like Abwärts, Palais Schaumburg, Die Tödliche Doris, Einstürzenden Neubauten, and Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle, to name a few), he personally created the term "German New Wave," and was eventually financially strangled by the decadence of that very movement.
The turn of the century saw the rise of a variety of disparate movements: Naturalism, Decadence, Symbolism, and the Roman Catholic revival.
"From its air of decadence to its prowling camera movements," Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times, "this is a Claude Chabrol film from lurid start to surrealistic finish".
But from its air of decadence to its prowling camera movements, this is a Claude Chabrol film from lurid start to surrealistic finish.
There's a century-old Japanese cultural movement that revels in decadence and aberration, a sibling of Edgar Allan Poe and Grand Guignol, known as ero-guro ("erotic grotesque nonsense").
Soon, however, drift and decadence took over.
First published in 1857, this collection explores a range of topics from decadence, to physical love, to the bourgeois movement.
Alarm over social degeneration and societal decadence further fanned concerns over the woman's movement and female liberalisation, which challenged the traditional conception of Victorian womanhood.
Like Futurism, a contemporaneous movement, crepuscolarismo reflected the influence of European Decadence and was a reaction to the florid ornamental rhetoric of the Italian author Gabriele D'Annunzio.
