| Constructing the Viennese Modern Body: Art, Hysteria, and the Puppet Contributor(s): Timpano, Nathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138220183 ISBN-13: 9781138220188 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Subjects & Themes - Human Figure - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) - Performing Arts | Theater - General |
| Dewey: 709.436 |
| LCCN: 2017285625 |
| Series: Studies in Art Historiography |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 7.1" W x 9.9" (1.55 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. |