Constructing the Viennese Modern Body
Art, Hysteria, and the Puppet
Edición de la obra Constructing the Viennese Modern Body
| Autor | Nathan J. Timpano |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Taylor & Francis Group |
| Fecha de publicación | 2017 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| ISBN-13 | 9781315413693 |
| Número de Cutter | T586c |
"This book takes a new, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing modern Viennese visual culture, 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."--Page i.