‘Historicizing pose: the body in the modern era’. Review of: Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen, Modern Art & the Remaking of Human Disposition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021

Abstract

By the end of the nineteenth century, artists across Europe revived archaic modes of posing the body. This review assesses recent scholarship by Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen on the subject of posture and its relationship to psychology in European modernism.

Keywords

• european art
• european modernism
• history of evolutionary biology
• history of psychology
• pose
• posture
• disposition
• georges seurat
• gustav klimt
• vaslav nijinsky