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Natureâ€™s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form

By (author) Allison Morehead

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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, Ã‰douard 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 work and processes. She shows how the concept of â€œnatureâ€™s experimentsâ€â€”the belief that the study of pathologies led to an understanding of scientific truths, above all about the human mind and bodyâ€”extended from the scientific realm into the world of art, underpinned artistsâ€™ solutions to the problem of symbolist form, and provided a ready-made methodology for fin-de-siÃ¨cle truth seekers. By using experimental methods to transform symbolist theories into visual form, these artists broke from naturalist modes and interrogated concepts such as deformation, automatism, the arabesque, and madness to create modern works that were radically and usefully strange. Focusing on the scientific, psychological, and experimental tactics of symbolism, Natureâ€™s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form demystifies the avant-garde value of experimentation and reveals new and important insights into a foundational period for the development of European modernism.

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