Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form - Couverture souple

Livre 2 sur 10: Refiguring Modernism

Morehead, Allison

 
9780271076751: Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form
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ISBN 10 : 0271076755 ISBN 13 : 9780271076751
Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018

Synopsis

This provocative study argues that some of the most inventive artwork of the 1890s was strongly influenced by the methods of experimental science and ultimately foreshadowed twentieth-century modernist practices.

Looking at avant-garde figures such as Maurice Denis, Édouard Vuillard, August Strindberg, and Edvard Munch, Allison Morehead considers the conjunction of art making and experimentalism to illuminate how artists echoed the spirit of an increasingly explorative scientific culture in their work and processes. She shows how the concept of "nature's experiments"--the belief that the study of pathologies led to an understanding of scientific truths, above all about the human mind and body--extended from the scientific realm into the world of art, underpinned artists' solutions to the problem of symbolist form, and provided a ready-made methodology for fin-de-siècle truth seekers. By using experimental methods to transform symbolist theories into visual form, these artists broke from naturalist modes and interrogated concepts such as deformation, automatism, the arabesque, and madness to create modern works that were radically and usefully strange.

Focusing on the scientific, psychological, and experimental tactics of symbolism, Nature's Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form demystifies the avant-garde value of experimentation and reveals new and important insights into a foundational period for the development of European modernism.

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À propos de l?auteur

Allison Morehead is Associate Professor of Art History and Cultural Studies at Queen's University.

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Éditeur
Pennsylvania State University Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0271076755
ISBN 13 
9780271076751
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
264
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0271076747 ISBN 13 :  9780271076744
Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017
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