The Pulse of Modernism: Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-De-Siècle Europe

ISBN-13: 9780295993201 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 384 str.

Robert Michael Brain

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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-siecle 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.