Constructing the Viennese Modern Body: Art, Hysteria, and the Puppet Contributor(s): Timpano, Nathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367736187 ISBN-13: 9780367736187 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) - Art | Subjects & Themes - Human Figure - Performing Arts | Theater - General |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.9" W x 9.6" (1.19 lbs) 222 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |