Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. European
6. [modern European styles and movements]
7. fin de siècle

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to the intellectual movement of the last two decades of the 19th century when both artists and writers became more concerned with form, beauty, and pleasure than content and morality. The movement is characterized by a preoccupation with themes considered morbid, disturbing, sexual, or supernatural.