xv, 241 pages : illustrations (mostly colors) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Series numbering from book jacket
Bibliographic Note:
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