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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792742703321

Autore

Morehead Allison

Titolo

Nature's experiments and the search for symbolist form / / Allison Morehead

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

0-271-07938-X

0-271-07940-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 241 pages :) : illustrations (chiefly color) ;

Collana

Refiguring modernism

Disciplina

704.946

Soggetti

Symbolism (Art movement)

Art and science - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-228) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Toward an experimental symbolism: ideas and ideals -- Defending deformation : Maurice Denis's positivist modernism -- Édouard Vuillard's experimental arabesques -- August Strindberg's naturalistic symbolism -- Madness as method : the pathological experiments of Edvard Munch.

Sommario/riassunto

"Examines the influence of experimental science, concerned with the workings of the body, the mind, and their various pathologies, on the works of late nineteenth-century artists Maurice Denis, Édouard Vuillard, August Strindberg, and Edvard Munch"--Provided by publisher.