At the Crossroads of the Senses : The Synaesthetic Metaphor Across the Arts in European Modernism.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dimova, Polina.

Series:

Perspectives on Sensory History Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Synesthesia and the arts.

Modernism (Art)--Europe.

Modernism (Art).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Polina Dimova's "At the Crossroads of the Senses: The Synaesthetic Metaphor Across the Arts in European Modernism" explores the intersections of art, science, and sensory perception in European modernist culture. The book investigates how synaesthesia, the blending of sensory experiences such as perceiving sounds as colors, inspired artistic innovation during the fin de siècle and beyond. Drawing on examples from literature, music, painting, and sculpture, Dimova examines figures such as Wassily Kandinsky, František Kupka, Aleksandr Scriabin, and Rainer Maria Rilke, highlighting their contributions to modernist abstraction and symbolist visions. The work also delves into the scientific and philosophical underpinnings of synaesthetic ideas, tracing their dissemination across disciplines and national boundaries. Intended for scholars and students of modernist art, literature, and sensory history, this book provides a rich analysis of how sensory metaphors shaped new artistic paradigms and cultural understandings in early 20th-century Europe. Generated by AI.

Contents:

COVER Front

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Notes to Introduction

Chapter 1: Synaesthetic Genealogies Common Sense, Artistic Synthesis, and Universal Correspondences

Notes to Chapter 1

Chapter 2: Synaesthesia at the Fin de Siècle Scientific and Artistic Discourses

Notes to Chapter 2

Chapter 3: Deranging the Senses The Dissemination of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé Across the Arts

Notes to Chapter 3

Chapter 4: Merging the SensesThe Russian Symbolist Poetics of Light and Aleksandr Scriabin’s Electric Prometheus

Notes to Chapter 4

Chapter 5: Sensory Counterpoints Wassily Kandinsky’s Color-Sounds and the Dissonance of Modernity

Notes to Chapter 5

Chapter 6: František Kupka’s Synaesthetic Disks Music, Color, Motion

Notes to Chapter 6

Chapter 7: “Bright Patches and Dots of Light” Andrei Bely’s Synaesthetic Abstractions

Notes to Chapter 7

Chapter 8: Translating the Senses Auguste Rodin’s and Rainer Maria Rilke’s Synaesthetic Fragments

Notes to Chapter 8

Chapter 9: The Senses, Fragmented and United Rainer Maria Rilke, Orpheus, and the Phonograph

Notes to Chapter 9

Notes

Bibliography

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Other Format:

Print version: Dimova, Polina At the Crossroads of the Senses

ISBN:

9780271099569

OCLC:

1467875792