decadence
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thumb|An orgy in Imperial Rome, by Henryk Siemiradzki thumb|Romans during the Decadence, by [[Thomas Couture]]
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- History
- Ancient Rome
- Victorian-era artwork on Roman decadence
- Decadent movement
- 1920s Berlin
- Decadent nihilistic art
- Decadent aesthetics
- Controversy
- Women in decadence
- Social change
- Modern-day perspectives
- Postmodernist connection to decadence
- Jacques Barzun
- Pria Viswalingam
- Use in Marxism
- Leninism
- Left communism
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|An orgy in Imperial Rome, by Henryk Siemiradzki thumb|Romans during the Decadence, by [[Thomas Couture]]
Decadence was a late-19th-century movement emphasizing the need for sensationalism, egocentricity, and bizarre, artificial, perverse, and exotic sensations and experiences. By extension, it may refer to a decline in art, literature, science, technology, and work ethics, or (very loosely) to self-indulgent behavior.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “decadence” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.