Constructing the Viennese Modern Body : Art, Hysteria, and the Puppet Hardback
by Nathan (University of Miami) Timpano
Part of the Studies in Art Historiography series
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This book takes a new, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing modern Viennese visual culture, one informed by Austro-German theater, contemporary medical treatises centered on hysteria, and an original examination of dramatic gestures in expressionist artworks.
It centers on the following question: How and to what end was the human body discussed, portrayed, and utilized as an aesthetic metaphor in turn-of-the-century Vienna?
By scrutinizing theatrically “hysterical” performances, avant-garde puppet plays, and images created by Oskar Kokoschka, Koloman Moser, Egon Schiele and others, Nathan J.
Timpano discusses how Viennese artists favored the pathological or puppet-like body as their contribution to European modernism.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:222 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:30/05/2017
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- ISBN:9781138220188
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:222 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:30/05/2017
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- ISBN:9781138220188
