Title: Nature's experiments and the search for symbolist form /
Authors: Morehead, Allison
Year: 2017
Subjects: Denis, Maurice, Criticism and interpretation.; Vuillard, Édouard, Criticism and interpretation.; Strindberg, August, Criticism and interpretation.; Munch, Edvard, Criticism and interpretation.; Denis, Maurice,; Munch, Edvard,; Strindberg, August,; Vuillard, Édouard,; Symbolism (Art movement); Art and science History; Art and science; Symbolism (Art movement)
Abstract: "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.
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.