Constructing the Viennese Modern Body

Art, Hysteria, and the Puppet

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

AvNathan Timpano,Nathan (University of Miami) Timpano

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-12-18
Mått174 x 246 x 15 mm
Vikt517 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Art Historiography
Antal sidor222
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367736187

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List of Illustrations List of Plates AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Conundrum of the Viennese Modern Body 1 “The Semblance of Things”: Re-Visioning Viennese Expressionism2 “The Woman Emerges”: Medical Vision and the Spectacle of Hysteria 3 Performing Hysteria: A Vogue for Hystero-Theatrical Gestures 4 A Tale of Three Hysterics: Elektra, Isolde, and Salome 5 The Inanimate Body Speaks: The Language of the Marionette Theater 6 Pathological Puppets: The Body and the Marionette in Viennese Expressionism

"I cannot begin to do justice to this book in this brief review. As a lay reader interested in gender, sexuality, and the history of the body, I approached the book with great curiosity and I was not disappointed."-- German Studies Review "Alongside all of the quickly and superficially produced publications on Viennese modernism, Timpano's book pleasantly stands out - as a very serious study written with a highly scientific ethos."-- Journal of Art Historiography"Timpano writes with confidence and authority on art history…[his] perspective on some of the better known developments in twentieth-century European puppetry will be of interest to readers."-- Puppetry International