Series numbering from book jacket. 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.
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.
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