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Author Morehead, Allison, author.

Title Nature's experiments and the search for symbolist form / Allison Morehead.

Publication Info. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Refiguring modernism
Refiguring modernism.
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"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
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Subject Denis, Maurice, 1870-1943 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Denis, Maurice, 1870-1943.
Criticism and interpretation.
Vuillard, Édouard, 1868-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Vuillard, Édouard, 1868-1940.
Strindberg, August, 1849-1912 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Strindberg, August, 1849-1912.
Munch, Edvard, 1863-1944 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Munch, Edvard, 1863-1944.
Symbolism (Art movement)
Symbolism (Art movement)
Art and science -- History -- 19th century.
Art and science.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
ISBN 9780271079400 (electronic book)
0271079401 (electronic book)
9780271079387 (electronic book)
027107938X (electronic book)
9780271076744
0271076747