Vitalist Modernism
Art, Science, Energy and Creative Evolution
Series: Science and the Arts since 1750;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 28 February 2023
- ISBN 9781032423487
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages276 pages
- Size 246x174 mm
- Weight 510 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 38 Illustrations, black & white; 38 Illustrations, color; 38 Halftones, black & white; 38 Halftones, color 1281
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This book reveals how, when, where and why vitalism and its relationship to new scientific theories, philosophies and concepts of energy became seminal from the fin de si?cle until the Second World War.
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This book reveals how, when, where, and why vitalism and its relationship to new scientific theories, philosophies and concepts of energy became seminal from the fin de si?cle until the Second World War for such Modernists as Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Hugo Ball, Juliette Bisson, Eva Carri?re, Salvador Dal?, Robert Delaunay, Marcel Duchamp, Edvard Munch, Picasso, Yves Tanguy, Gino Severini and John Cage. For them, Vitalism entailed the conception of life as a constant process of metamorphosis impelled by the free flow of energies, imaginings, intuition and memories, unconstrained by mechanistic materialism and chronometric imperatives, to generate what the philosopher Henri Bergson aptly called Creative Evolution.
Following the three main dimensions of Vitalist Modernism, the first part of this book reveals how biovitalism at the fin de si?cle entailed the pursuit of corporeal regeneration through absorption in raw nature, wholesome environments, aquatic therapies, electromagnetism, heliotherapy, modern sports, particularly rugby, water sports, the Olympic Games and physical culture to energize the human body and vitalize its life force. This is illuminated by artists as geoculturally diverse as Gustave Caillebotte, Thomas Eakins, Munch and Albert Gleizes. The second part illuminates how simultaneously Vitalism became aligned with anthroposophy, esotericism, magnetism, occultism, parapsychology, spiritism, theosophy and what Bergson called "psychic states", alongside such new sciences as electromagnetism, radiology and the Fourth Dimension, as captured by such artists as Juliette Bisson, Giacomo Balla, Albert Besnard, Umberto Boccioni, Eva Carri?re, John Gerrard Keulemans, L
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Introduction, Vitalizing Energies, Creativity and Evolution Fae Brauer; PART I BIOVITALISM; Corporeal Regeneration, Environmental Purification and National Evolution; Chapter One The Manly Water Arts: Hygiene, Vitality and Virility at the fin-de-si?cle, Anthea Callen; Chapter Two Edvard Munch and the Vitalized Bodies of National Science, Patricia Berman; Chapter Three ? L?art et le muscle ? : Robert Delaunay?s L?
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