At the crossroads of the senses : the synaesthetic metaphor across the arts in European modernism / Polina Dimova

Author: Dimova, Polina
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2025]
Physical Description: xv, 296 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

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Perspectives on sensory history

Contents

Modernist synaesthesia : art and science -- Synaesthetic genealogies : common sense, artistic synthesis, and universal correspondences -- Synaesthesia at the fin de siècle : scientific and artistic discourses -- Transforming the senses : decadent and symbolist visions -- Deranging the senses : the dissemination of Oscar Wilde's Salomé across the arts -- Merging the senses : the Russian symbolist poetics of light and Aleksandr Scriabin's electric Prometheus -- Projecting the senses : from mystical synaesthesia to abstraction -- Sensory counterpoints : Wassily Kandinsky's color-sounds and the dissonance of modernity -- František Kupka's synaesthetic disks : music, color, motion -- "Bright patches and dots of light" : Andrei Bely's synaesthetic abstractions -- Extending the senses : Rainer Maria Rilke's language as synaesthetic technology -- Translating the senses : Auguste Rodin's and Rainer Maria Rilke's synaesthetic fragments -- The senses, fragmented and united : Rainer Maria Rilke, Orpheus, and the phonograph -- Coda : synaesthesia as constellation.

Summary

"Investigates the flourishing exchanges among the modernist arts and sciences through the lens of synaesthesia, questioning why modern European artists imagined or perceived sounds as colors, scents, or shapes"--

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9780271097817 hardcover
0271097817 hardcover
9780271099569 electronic book
9780271099576 electronic book

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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