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Decadent movement
Late-19th-century movement / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Decadent movement (from the French décadence, lit. 'decay') was a late-19th-century artistic and literary movement, centered in Western Europe, that followed an aesthetic ideology of excess and artificiality.
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The Decadent movement first flourished in France and then spread throughout Europe and to the United States.[1] The movement was characterized by a belief in the superiority of human fantasy[2][3][4] and aesthetic hedonism[5][6][7][8][9][10][11] over logic and the natural world.[12][4]