The Pulse of Modernism
Author | : Robert Michael Brain |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2015-03-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0295805781 |
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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-siècle 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.