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The Pulse of Modernism: Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-De-Siècle Europe (2015)

Brain, Robert Michael (Author)

University of Washington Press

ISBN: 9780295993201

Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: xxxii + 348 pages pp.; index; ill.; bibl.
Language: English

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Fine arts Modernism Aesthetics Physiology Science and art Senses and sensation; perception 19th century Germany France Europe

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

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Review Hui, Alexandra (July 2016) Review of "The Pulse of Modernism: Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-De-Siècle Europe". Technology and Culture (pp. 677-678). unapi

Review Boris Jardine (2016) Review of "The Pulse of Modernism: Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-De-Siècle Europe". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 867-868). unapi

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