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.