Figures at the Intersection: Pierre Bonnard, Stéphane Mallarmé, and the Revue blanche

Journals offered vibrant new professional vehicles for fin-de-siècle writers and, in less obvious ways, for visual artists. A handful also served as laboratories for the transformation of literary and visual culture, and for new forms of interplay between visual culture, belles-lettres, and journalism. This essay looks at one of the most generative of these, Revue blanche, which facilitated and advanced a syncretism of the pictorial and the literary arts in the nexus of print and press culture. This in turn contributed to the development of the livre d'artiste, concrete poetry, and the twentieth-century visual and intellectual strategies of futurism, Dada, and surrealism.