Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form

About the author

Allison Morehead is Associate Professor of Art History and Cultural Studies at Queen’s University.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Allison Morehead, Allison (Associate Professor Morehead, Morehead Allison
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2017
• EAN: 9780271076744
• ISBN: 978-0-271-07674-4
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 1361 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Series: Refiguring Modernism; Refiguring Modernism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; ART / Individual Artists / General, ART / History / General, ART / European, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Art & Design Styles: Pre-Raphaelite Art