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

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

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Series: In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science

PhilosophyArt HistoryGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 0295993219
ISBN13: 9780295993218
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: Oct 1 2016
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.60 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

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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