The Pulse of Modernism

Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-de-Siècle Europe

Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, Art History, History, Modern, 20th Century
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Author: Robert Michael Brain ISBN: 9780295805788
Publisher: University of Washington Press Publication: May 1, 2015
Imprint: University of Washington Press Language: English
Author: Robert Michael Brain
ISBN: 9780295805788
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication: May 1, 2015
Imprint: University of Washington Press
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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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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