Nature's experiments and the search for symbolist form /Allison Morehead.
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource.
- Refiguring modernism .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Towards 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.
"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.
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Denis, Maurice, 1870-1943 --Criticism and interpretation. Vuillard, Édouard, 1868-1940 --Criticism and interpretation. Strindberg, August, 1849-1912 --Criticism and interpretation. Munch, Edvard, 1863-1944 --Criticism and interpretation. Munch, Edvard, 1863-1944 --Criticism and interpretation. Strindberg, August, 1849-1912 --Criticism and interpretation. Vuillard, Édouard, 1868-1940 --Criticism and interpretation. Denis, Maurice, 1870-1943 --Criticism and interpretation.
Symbolism (Art movement) Art and science--History--19th century.