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Nature's Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

Nature's Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form

By Allison Morehead

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About the book

This provocative study argues that some of the most inventive artwork of the 1890s was strongly influenced by the methods of experimental science and ultimately foreshadowed twentieth-century modernist practices.Looking at avant-garde figures such as Maurice Denis, Edouard Vuillard, August Strindberg, and Edvard Munch, Allison Morehead considers the conjunction of art making and experimentalism to illuminate how artists echoed the spirit of an increasingly explorative scientific culture in their...Show more

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9780271076744

Publisher

Pennsylvania State University Press

Published year

2017

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1

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Nature's Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form

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Hardcover

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