Vitalist Modernism: Art, Science, Energy and Creative Evolution

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction: Vitalizing Energies, Science, Creativity and Evolution
PART I BIOVITALISM: Corporeal Regeneration, Environmental Purification and National Evolution
	1. The Manly Water Arts: Hygiene, Vitality and Virility at the fin-de-siècle
	2. Edvard Munch and the Vitalized Bodies of National Science
	3. « L’art et le muscle »: Robert Delaunay’s L’Equipe de Cardiff and Pierre de Coubertin’s Internationalist Vitalism
PART II OCCULTIST VITALISM: Magnetism, Parapsychology, Spiritism and Theosophy
	4. Visualizations of the Vital-Psychic Force
	5. Vitalist Picasso: Bergson’s “Psychic States”, Phantasmatic Luminescence and Occultist Cubism
	6. Chromatic Futurism: Vitalizing Painting, Sculpture, Music and Life’s Energies
PART III NEO-VITALISM: Absurdity, Dysfunctionality, Inversion and Socialism
	7. Was Dada Vitalistic?
	8. Henri Bergson and Surrealism: Art, The Vital Impetus and The Persistence of Memory
	9. Bergson, Creativity and the Vitalist Left: Egoism, Syndicalism, Communism
	10. Revitalizing Traumatised Soviet Soldiers: Art, Psychology and “Creative Darwinism”
Bibliography
Index