1st Edition

A Neuroarthistory of The Painters of Modern Life Embodying Baudelairean Modernity

By Lauren S. Weingarden Copyright 2026
302 Pages 21 Color & 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

302 Pages 21 Color & 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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 viewers’ physical and psychological... Read more

Acknowledgments 

List of Figures 

 

Introduction 

 

Chapter 1 Neuroaesthetics and Cognitive Poetics: Mapping Baudelairean Modernity in Neural Processing of Word and Image 

Chapter 2 Mirroring Haussmannization in Baudelairean Word and Graphic Image  

Chapters 3 On Baudelairean Modernity: Neuroaesthetic Modeling of Ironic Self-Reflection 

Chapter 4 Mirroring Haussmannization in Baudelairean Word and Photographic Image 

Chapter 5 A Collaborative Investigation into Affective and Embodied Aesthetic Responses to  

Charles Marville’s Old Paris and New Paris Series 

Chapter 6 Manet’s Erotic and Ironic Gaze: Photography, Pornography, and Censorship 

Chapter 7 Brain Mapping Censorship and Desire in Second Empire Paris 

Chapter 8 Baudelaire’s Prose Poems: A Paradigm for Ironic Parody 

Chapter 9 Verbal and Visual Parody: Zola’s and Manet’s Ironic Encounters 

Chapter 10 Reflections on Baudelairean Modernity 

 

Epilogue 

References 

Index 

Biography

Lauren S. Weingarden is Professor Emerita of Art History at Florida State University.