| The Pulse of Modernism: Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-De-Siècle Europe Contributor(s): Brain, Robert Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0295993200 ISBN-13: 9780295993201 Publisher: University of Washington Press OUR PRICE: $103.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Aesthetics - History | Modern - 20th Century - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) |
| Dewey: 111.850 |
| LCCN: 2014040342 |
| Series: In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 7.74" W x 9.1" (1.70 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |