Brain, Robert Michael, 1959-

The pulse of modernism : physiological aesthetics in Fin-de-Siècle Europe / Robert Michael Brain. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (xxxii, 348 pages). - In Vivo .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Representation on the line: graphic method as experimental system -- The vibratory organism: protoplasm and general physiology -- Visible speech: experimental phonetics and the physiology of vocalization -- Algorithms of pleasure: art as expert system -- Liberating verse: rhythm and measure in poetry -- Sensory fusion: evolution and synesthesia in art and aesthetics -- Art for life's sake: kinesthesia, empathy, and abstraction in early modernism.



9780295805788

2021692847


Aesthetics--Physiological aspects.
Modernism (Aesthetics)--Europe.
Modernism (Literature)--Europe.
Modernism (Art)--Europe.


Electronic Books.

BH301 / .P857 2015