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

By Robert Michael Brain

Book Overview

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-si cle 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295993219
• ISBN13: 9780295993218
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 8.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher