About Serge Polakoff Serge Polakoff - Speaker, Author, Artist, Contemporary Symbolist
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Exhibition Catalogues

Eros and death: Belgian Symbolism. Salzburg,
Austria, the Rupertinum, Museum für Moderne
und Zeitgenössische Kunst: July 25 - October 10, 1999.

Les XX and the Belgian avant-garde: Prints, drawings and books ca. 1890. Ghent, Belgium, Museum for Schone Kunsten: October 31 - December 12, 1992; Lawrence, Kansas, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas: January 24 - March 21, 1993;

Williamstown, Massachussets, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute: April 12 - June 13, 1993; Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art: July 13 - September 5, 1993.

Le Symbolisme dans les collections du Petit Palais. Paris, France, the Petit Palais Museum: October 21, 1988 - February 19, 1989.

Le Symbolisme en Europe. Rotterdam, Netherlands, Museum Boymans - van Beuningen: November 1975 - January 1976; Brussels, Belgium, Musée Royaux des Beaux Arts de Belgique: January - March 1976; Baden-Baden, Germany, Staatliche Kunsthalle: March - May 1976; Paris, France, Grand Palais: May - July 1976.

Lost paradise, Symbolist Europe. Montreal, Canada, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: June 8 - October 15, 1995.

Symbolisme en Europe. Takamatsu, Japan, the Takamatsu Municipal Museum of Fine Arts: November 1 - December 8, 1996; Tokyo, Japan, the Bunkamura Museum of Fine Arts: December 14, 1996 - February 1997; Himeji, Japan, the Himeji Municipal Museum of Fine Arts: February 15 - March 30, 1997.

Vers des temps nouveaux, Kupka: Oeuvres graphiques 1894-1912. Paris, France, Musée d’Orsay: June 25 - October 6, 2002.

Books on the Symbolism Movement

Delevoy, R. L. (1977). Journal du Symbolisme. Geneva, Switzerland: Edition d’Art Albert Skyra.

Dorra, H. (1994). Symbolist art theories: A critical anthology. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.

Gibson, M. (1999). Le Symbolisme. Köln, Germany: Tashen.

Gibson, M. (1994). Symbolism: 6 posters. Germany: Tashen.

Houssais, L. et al. (1997). L’ABCdaire du Symbolisme et de l’art nouveau. Paris: Flammarion.

Huyghe, R. (1974). La relève du réel. Paris: Flammarion.

Kallir, J. (1995). Gustav Klimt: 25 masterworks. New York: Harry N. Abrams.

Lacambre, G. et al. (1998). Gustave Moreau: Le rêve symbolique. Paris: Editions Faton, Dossiers de l’Art.

Lacambre, G. et al. (1998). Gustave Moreau. Paris: Société Française de Promotion Artistique, Connaissance des Arts.

Legrand, F.-C. (1971). Le Symbolisme en Belgique. Brussels: Imprimerie Laconti.

Lemaire, G.-G. (1996). Symbolisme. Paris: Cercle d’Art.

Lièvre-Crosson, E. (2000). Du réalisme au Symbolisme. Paris: Editions Milan.

Lucie-Smith, E. (1972). Symbolist art. London: Thames and Hudson.

Mathieu, P.-L. (1994). Symbolisme: Un moment de bonheur. Geneva, Switzerland: Edition d’Art Albert Skyra.

Novas, H. Transl. (1975). Redon, Seurat and the Symbolists. New York: Lamplight Publishing.

Piens, B. et al. (1975). La peinture Symboliste I. Paris: Centre National de Documentation Pédagogique.

Roberts-Jones, P. (1994). Bruxelles fin de siècle. Paris: Flammarion.

Books on Symbolism and symbols

Barz, E. (1991). Gods and planets. (B. Matthews, Trans.). Wilmette, IL: Chiron Publications.

Biedermann, H. (1989) (French translation: 1996). Encyclopédie des symboles. Paris: Librairie Générale Française, La Pochothèque.

Carr-Gomm, S. (2001). Hidden symbols in art. London: Duncan Baird and New York: Rizzoli International.

Greene, L. (1978). Relating. York Beach, MN: Samuel Weiser.

Guttman, A. & Johnson, K. (1993). Mythic astrology. St. Paul, MI: Llewellyn Publications.

Hall, J. (1974). Dictionary of subjects & symbols in art. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.

Jung, C.G. (1964). Man and his symbols. New York:Doubleday.

Polakoff, S. (1999). Psychological Feng Shui, a new approach to happiness based on modern psychology and the ancient art of environmental harmony. Longboat Key, Florida: Harmony 2000. Exists also in French.

Polakoff, S. (1999). I Ching personality test (booklet). Longboat Key, Florida: Harmony 2000. Exists also in French.

Polakoff, S. (1999). Psychological Feng Shui, evaluations and test forms. Longboat Key, Florida: Harmony 2000. Exists also in French.

Polakoff, S. (1996). Revealing a new typology by expanding Jung’s basic concepts towards astrological archetypes. Santa Barbara, CA: Thesis at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Sperber, D. (1974). Le symbolisme en général. Paris: Hermann, Collection Savoir.

Wasserman, J. (1993). Art and symbols of the occult: Images of power and wisdom. Rochester, Vermont: Destiny Books.