The Pulse of Modernism : Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-de-Siecle Europe / Robert Michael Brain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brain, Robert Michael, 1959-

Series:

In vivo (Seattle, Wash.)

In Vivo

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Art)--Europe.

Modernism (Art).

Modernism (Literature)--Europe.

Modernism (Literature).

Modernism (Aesthetics)--Europe.

Modernism (Aesthetics).

Aesthetics--Physiological aspects.

Aesthetics.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle, [Washington] ; London, [England] : University of Washington Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Representation on the line: graphic method as experimental system

The vibratory organism: protoplasm and general physiology

Visible speech: experimental phonetics and the physiology of vocalization

Algorithms of pleasure: art as expert system

Liberating verse: rhythm and measure in poetry

Sensory fusion: evolution and synesthesia in art and aesthetics

Art for life's sake: kinesthesia, empathy, and abstraction in early modernism.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295805788

0295805781

OCLC:

909369328