{"product_id":"natures-experiments-and-the-search-for-symbolist-form-21-refiguring-modernism-9780271076751","title":"Natures Experiments and the Search for Symbolist","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamines 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There are so many contributions this author makes toward better understanding Symbolist art, from the close reading of key words, to letting the artists’ voices be heard, to learning more about the concept of truth at the beginning of the century.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Serena Keshavjee \u003ci\u003eCAA.Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form \u003c\/i\u003eprovides the framework for a completely reformed picture of symbolism’s place in the broader history of art.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Marnin Young \u003ci\u003eArt History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The full scope of \u003ci\u003eNature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form\u003c\/i\u003e will likely be most accessible to those already well-read on symbolism and its precursors, but the fresh understanding that Morehead establishes will serve a wide range of readers, and the author’s nuanced reading of Strindberg and Munch will impact multidisciplinary considerations of these luminaries.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Janet S. Rauscher \u003ci\u003eScandinavian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form\u003c\/i\u003e argues—rightly and boldly—that symbolism’s stark formal experiments, which have so often been taken to point the way toward twentieth-century abstraction, were tied to an explorative scientific culture concerned with the status of the modern body and mind and their pathologies. It is the first book to take seriously the semantic proximity between the terms ‘form’ and ‘deformation,’ including the gamut of ethical conundrums stretching between them. In this regard, \u003ci\u003eNature’s Experiments\u003c\/i\u003e is a revelation, allowing us to see afresh a set of familiar paintings by Denis, Vuillard, and Munch, among others, through period eyes schooled in the scientific language of experiment.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—André Dombrowski,author of \u003ci\u003eCézanne, Murder, and Modern Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Symbolism and Nature’s Experiments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1\tToward an Experimental Symbolism: Ideas and Ideals\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2\tDefending Deformation: Maurice Denis’s Positivist Modernism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3\tÉdouard Vuillard’s Experimental Arabesques\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4\tAugust Strindberg’s Naturalistic Symbolism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5\tMadness as Method: The Pathological Experiments of Edvard Munch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400796217687,"sku":"9780271076751","price":39.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271076751.jpg?v=1730471597","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/natures-experiments-and-the-search-for-symbolist-form-21-refiguring-modernism-9780271076751","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}