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The Pulse of Modernism: Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-de-Siècle Europe (In Vivo)
The Pulse of Modernism Physiological Aesthetics in FindeSicle Europe - In Vivo
Author: Robert Brain
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, an...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780295993201
ISBN-10: 0295993200
Publication Date: 2/23/2015
Pages: 384
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Publisher: University of Washington Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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