Vitalist Modernism - Art, Science, Energy and Creative Evolution

This book reveals how, when, where and why vitalism and its relationship to new scientific theories, philosophies and concepts of energy became seminal from the fin de siècle until the Second World War.

List of contents

Introduction, Vitalizing Energies, Creativity and Evolution Fae Brauer; PART I BIOVITALISM; Corporeal Regeneration, Environmental Purification and National Evolution; Chapter One The Manly Water Arts: Hygiene, Vitality and Virility at the fin-de-siècle, Anthea Callen; Chapter Two Edvard Munch and the Vitalized Bodies of National Science, Patricia Berman; Chapter Three ' L'art et le muscle ' : Robert Delaunay's L'Équipe de Cardiff and Pierre de Coubertin's Internationalist Vitalism, Pascal Rousseau; PART II OCCULTIST VITALISM; Magnetism, Parapsychology, Spiritism and Theosophy; Chapter Four Visualizations of the Vital-Psychic Force, Serena Keshavjee; Chapter Five Vitalist Picasso: Bergson's Psychic States, Phantasmatic Luminescence and Occultist Cubism, Fae Brauer; Chapter Six Chromatic Futurism: Vitalist Responses to Cubism and Cinema, David S. Mather; PART III NEO-VITALISM; Absurdity, Dysfunctionality, Inversion and Socialism; Chapter Seven Was Dada Vitalistic? Brandon Taylor' Chapter Eight Henri Bergson and Surrealism: Art, The Vital Impetus and The Persistence of Memory, Donna Roberts' Chapter Nine Bergson, Creativity and the Vitalist Left: Egoism, Syndicalism, Communism, Mark Antliff; Chapter Ten, Revitalizing Traumatized Soviet Soldiers: Art, Psychology and "Creative Darwinism", Patricia Simpson; Bibliography

About the author

Fae Brauer is Professor Emeritus of Art and Visual Culture at the University of East London Centre for Cultural Studies Research; Honorary Professor of Art History and Art Theory at The University of New South Wales and a Commissioning Editor for the Rowman & Littlefield International Radical Cultural Studies Series. She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts with an MA and PhD from The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.

Summary

This book reveals how, when, where and why vitalism and its relationship to new scientific theories, philosophies and concepts of energy became seminal from the fin de siècle until the Second World War.

Product details

• Authors: Fae Brauer
• Assisted by: Fae Brauer (Editor), Brauer Fae (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032423487
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3242348-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Science and the Arts since 1750
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Europe, Theory of art, European History, ART / History / General, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), History of art / art & design styles, Religion: general, Sociology: sport & leisure, History of Art, History of Science, Sports & outdoor recreation, Regional Studies, Sociology: sport and leisure, Regional / International studies, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men, Sports and Active outdoor recreation, Eclectic & Esoteric Religions & Belief Systems, Eclectic and esoteric religions and belief systems