Science, Medicine, and Anthropology
The Pulse of Modernism: Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-de-Siècle Europe
University of Washington Press, 2016, 384 pages
Given the growing divide between STEM and the arts (despite the somewhat anemic push to embrace the STEAM – STEM plus art – acronym/approach), Robert Brain’s ambitious new book, The Pulse of Modernism, reminds us that the line …