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Robert Brain traces the origins of artistic modernism to specific technologies of perception developed in late-nineteenth-century laboratories. Brain argues that the thriving fin-de-siècle field of "physiological aesthetics," which sought physiological explanations for the capacity to appreciate beauty and art, changed the way poets, artists, and musicians worked and brought a dramatic transformation to the idea of art itself.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Experimentalizing Life
1. Representation on the Line
2. The Vibratory Organism
3. Visible Speech
Part 2: Experimentalizing Art
4. Algorithms of Pleasure
5. Liberating Verse
6. Sensory Fusion
7. Art for Life's Sake
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index



