| Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin Dada Contributor(s): Haakenson, Thomas O. (Author), Meyer, Imke (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1501369903 ISBN-13: 9781501369902 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $128.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) |
| Dewey: 700.415 |
| LCCN: 2021004292 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.02 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Grotesque Visions focuses on the radical avant-garde interventions of Salomo Friedländer (aka Mynona), Til Brugman, and Hannah Höch as they challenged the questionable practices and evidentiary claims of late-19th- and early-20th-century science. Demonstrating the often excessive measures that pathologists, anthropologists, sexologists, and medical professionals went to present their research in a seemingly unambiguous way, this volume shows how Friedländer/Mynona, Brugman, Höch, and other Berlin-based artists used the artistic grotesque to criticize, satirize, and subvert a variety of forms of supposed scientific objectivity. The volume concludes by examining the exhibition Grotesk!: 130 Jahre Kunst der Frechheit/Comic Grotesque: Wit and Mockery in German Arts, 1870-1940. In contrast to the ahistorical and amorphous concept informing the exhibition, Thomas O. Haakenson reveals a unique deployment of the artistic grotesque that targeted specific established and emerging scientific discourses at the turn of the last fin-de-siècle. |