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The Pulse of Modernism: Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-de-Siècle Europe (In Vivo)
Robert Michael Brain
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Paperback. Series: In Vivo. Num Pages: 384 pages, 61 black & white illustrations, 61 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; AB; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 170 x 22. Weight in Grams: 576.
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-siecle 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.
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-siecle 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.
Product Details
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
In Vivo
Condition
New
Weight
576g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295993218
SKU
V9780295993218
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About Robert Michael Brain
Robert Michael Brain is associate professor of history at the University of British Columbia.
Reviews for The Pulse of Modernism: Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-de-Siècle Europe (In Vivo)
The Pulse of Modernism is richly informed by scholarship in art history, history of science, and social studies of science. Its synthesis of wide-ranging philosophical and scientific matters makes for intensive reading, yet readers are generously rewarded with exquisite descriptions of laboratory techniques, scientific discoveries, and works of art.
Jill Morawski
Journal of Modern History
[A] highly creative endeavour in the cultural history of science and aesthetics which provides a compelling account of the inspiration which various early practitioners of the modernist movement drew from the physiological laboratories of the nineteenth century. For historians working at the intersection between science and art it is essential reading, whilst historians of science, technology and medicine more medicine more generally can draw inspiration from this approach just as artists in the late nineteenth century looked outside the conventional boundaries of their practice to inform new directions of experimentation in the studio.
James F. Stark
The British Journal for the History of Science
Jill Morawski
Journal of Modern History
[A] highly creative endeavour in the cultural history of science and aesthetics which provides a compelling account of the inspiration which various early practitioners of the modernist movement drew from the physiological laboratories of the nineteenth century. For historians working at the intersection between science and art it is essential reading, whilst historians of science, technology and medicine more medicine more generally can draw inspiration from this approach just as artists in the late nineteenth century looked outside the conventional boundaries of their practice to inform new directions of experimentation in the studio.
James F. Stark
The British Journal for the History of Science