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A Neuroarthistory of The Painters of Modern Life: Embodying Baudelairean Modernity

By (author) Lauren S. Weingarden

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Using a transdisciplinary method combining art history, literary studies, and neuroaesthetics, this book examines the modern urban experience of nineteenth-century Paris through language and images of fragmentation and transformation. The volume includes new empirical research conducted in collaboration with neuropsychologists, which tracks present-day viewersâ€™ physical and psychological responses to nineteenth-century painting and photography, thus providing data to model an experiential aesthetic for Baudelairean modernity. Weingarden reframes our understanding of Haussmannization, the demolition and rebuilding of the city into a modern metropolis, as witnessed by nineteenth-century Parisians, while also shedding new light on writersâ€™ responses, particularly those of Charles Baudelaire, and of visual artists like Ã‰douard Manet, who contemplated and theorized this modernity and its impact. Using a unique word-and-image methodology, the author illustrates the development of ironic parody as a pictorial device that represents the rupture, fragmentation, and transmutation experienced by the artists and their viewers, revealing how art historians can utilize nineteenth-century neuropsychological practices and current neuroscience methods to reconstruct the lived, embodied experiences of nineteenth-century Paris. This book will be of interest to students and scholars working in art history, modern art, urban studies and neuropsychology.