Vibratory Modernism

"Vibratory Modernism" is a collection of original essays that will enable scholars and students to explore how vibrations provided a means of bridging science and art -- two fields that became increasingly separate over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book demonstrates the vital role played by vibrations in the fields of physics, physiology, spiritualism, and by new vibratory technologies, in helping to shape the way modernist art was made and viewed. The chapters are placed into three connecting parts focusing on literature, the visual arts and theatre, each part highlighting the diverse ways in which writers, artists and performers engaged with the fascinating world of vibrations.

List of contents

Introduction 1. From Vibratory Occultism to Vibratory Modernism: Blackwood, Lawrence, Woolf; Justin Sausman 2. 'A Sinister Resonance': Vibration, Sound, and the Birth of Conrad's Marlow; Julie Napolin 3. Physics as Narrative: Lewis, Pound and the London Vortex; Andrew Logemann 4. Throbbing Human Engines: Mechanical Vibration, Entropy and Death in Marinetti, Joyce, Ehrenburg and Eliot; Matthew Wraith 5. Materializing the Medium: Ectoplasm and the Quest for Supra-Normal Biology in Fin-de-Siecle Science and Art; Robert Michael Brain 6. A Sense and Essence of Nature: Wave Patterns in the Paintings of Frantisek Kupka; John G. Hatch 7. Ether Machines: Raoul Hausmann's Optophonetic Media; Arndt Niebisch 8. Vibratory Photography; Anthony Enns 9. Good Vibrations: Avant-Garde Theatre and Etherial Aesthetics from Kandinsky to Futurism; Mike Vanden Heuvel 10. The Vibratorium Electrified; Nicholas Ridout 11. Vibration, Percussion, and Primitivism in Avant-Garde Performance; Adrian Curtin 12. Deleted Expletives: Vibration & the Modernist Vocal Imaginary; Simon Bayley

Report

"This is a scintillating collection, packed with new ideas, making exciting connections between different fields and humming with intellectual possibilities. I expect Vibratory Modernism to make a very significant impact on modernist studies." - Professor Steven Connor, University of Cambridge, UK

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Trower Enns, Enns a Trower S
• Assisted by: Enns (Editor), A Enns (Editor), A. Enns (Editor), Anthony Enns (Editor), Trower (Editor), Trower (Editor), S. Trower (Editor), Shelley Trower (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.07.2013
• EAN: 9781137027245
• ISBN: 978-1-137-02724-5
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); B, Literature, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Arts, Theatre Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Literature, general, Culture—Study and teaching, Theater—History, Theatre History, Biography, Literature & Literary studies, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, aesthetics;essay;Narrative;science;theatre