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Author Morehead, Allison, author

Title Nature's experiments and the search for symbolist form / Allison Morehead
Published ©2017
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Refiguring modernism
Refiguring modernism.
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
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
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 8, 2017)
Subject Denis, Maurice, 1870-1943 -- Criticism and interpretation
Vuillard, Édouard, 1868-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation
Strindberg, August, 1849-1912 -- Criticism and interpretation
Munch, Edvard, 1863-1944 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Munch, Edvard, 1863-1944 -- Criticism and interpretation
Strindberg, August, 1849-1912 -- Criticism and interpretation
Vuillard, Édouard, 1868-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation
Denis, Maurice, 1870-1943 -- Criticism and interpretation
Denis, Maurice, 1870-1943 fast
Munch, Edvard, 1863-1944 fast
Strindberg, August, 1849-1912 fast
Vuillard, Édouard, 1868-1940 fast
Subject Symbolism (Art movement)
Art and science -- History -- 19th century
Symbolist.
ART -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
ART -- History -- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Art and science
Symbolism (Art movement)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016025159
ISBN 9780271079400
0271079401
9780271079387
027107938X