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Nature's experiments and the search for symbolist form / Allison Morehead.
LIBRA N6465.S9 M67 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morehead, Allison, author.
- Series:
- Refiguring modernism ; 21.
- Refiguring modernism ; [21]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Denis, Maurice, 1870-1943--Criticism and interpretation.
- Denis, Maurice.
- Vuillard, Édouard, 1868-1940--Criticism and interpretation.
- Vuillard, Édouard.
- Strindberg, August, 1849-1912--Criticism and interpretation.
- Strindberg, August.
- Munch, Edvard, 1863-1944--Criticism and interpretation.
- Munch, Edvard.
- Denis, Maurice, 1870-1943.
- Munch, Edvard, 1863-1944.
- Strindberg, August, 1849-1912.
- Vuillard, Édouard, 1868-1940.
- Symbolism (Art movement).
- Art and science--History--19th century.
- Art and science.
- History.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 241 pages : illustrations (chiefly colors) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- "Examines the influence of experimental science, concerned with the workings of the body, the mind, and their various pathologies, on the works of late nineteenth-century artists Maurice Denis, Édouard Vuillard, August Strindberg, and Edvard Munch"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Towards an experimental symbolism : ideas and ideals
- Defending deformation : Maurice Denis's positivist modernism
- Édouard Vuillard's experimental arabesques
- August Strindberg's naturalistic symbolism
- Madness as method : the pathological experiments of Edvard Munch.
- Notes:
- Series numbering from book jacket.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271076744
- 0271076747
- OCLC:
- 951557166
- Publisher Number:
- 13268293
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