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

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-si cle 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.

Author: Robert Michael Brain
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 10/01/2016
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.70h x 6.60w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780295993218

About the Author

Robert Michael Brain is associate professor of history at the University of British Columbia.