How Long to Read Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form

How Long Does it Take to Read Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 20 minutes to read Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form by Allison Morehead

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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, Édouard 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 “nature’s experiments”—the belief that the study of pathologies led to an understanding of scientific truths, above all about the human mind and body—extended from the scientific realm into the world of art, underpinned artists’ solutions to the problem of symbolist form, and provided a ready-made methodology for fin-de-siècle 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, Nature’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.

How long is Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form?

Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form by Allison Morehead is 260 pages long, and a total of 65,000 words.

This makes it 88% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 55 minutes to read Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form aloud.

What Reading Level is Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form?

Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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