In this Book
- The Pulse of Modernism: Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-de-Siècle Europe
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Washington Press
- Series: IN VIVO: THE CULTURAL MEDIATIONS OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE
summary
Robert Brain traces the origins of artistic modernism to specific technologies of perception developed in late-nineteenth-century laboratories. Brain argues that the thriving fin-de-siècle field of “physiological aesthetics,” which sought physiological explanations for the capacity to appreciate beauty and art, changed the way poets, artists, and musicians worked and brought a dramatic transformation to the idea of art itself.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- Introduction
- pp. xiii-xxxii
- Part 1. Experimentalizing Life
- Part 2. Experimentalizing Art
- Conclusion
- pp. 226-230
- Bibliography
- pp. 289-333
Additional Information
ISBN
9780295805788
Related ISBN(s)
9780295993201
MARC Record
OCLC
909369328
Pages
384
Launched on MUSE
2015-05-19
Language
English
Open Access
No