Doppelgaenger

Deborah Ascher Barnstone is Professor of Architecture and Associate Head of School in the Department of Architecture at University of Technology Sydney. She is a licensed architect and principal with Ascher Barnstone Architects as well as an art historian. Her primary research interests are twentieth- and twenty-first century German and Dutch art and architecture and classical modernism. Her most recent book, Beyond the Bauhaus: Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918–1933 (2016), scrutinizes the so-called dichotomy in interwar German cultural production. Barnstone edits the book series German Visual Culture with Thomas O. Haakenson.

• Contents: Deborah Ascher Barnstone: Introduction: The Overlooked Trope of the Doppelgänger – Lori A. Felton: Beyond The Self-Seers: The Creative Strategies within Egon Schiele’s Double Self-Portraiture – April A. Eisman: From Double Burden to Double Vision: The Doppelgänger in Doris Ziegler’s Paintings of Women in East Germany – Paul Monty Paret: Jean Paul at the Bauhaus: Oskar Schlemmer’s Doppelgängers – Deborah Ascher Barnstone: Seeing Double: The Doppelgänger in Two Interpretations of the Ballet Classic The Nutcracker, by John Neumeier and Marco Goecke – Nathan J. Timpano: Body Doubles: The Puppe as Doppelgänger in Fin-de-Siècle Viennese Visual Culture – Isa Murdock-Hinrichs: The Remake as Double: Space, Media, and the Irrational in Michael Haneke’s Funny Games – Thomas O. Haakenson/Andrew Felicilda: Melodrama and its Doubles: The Films of Douglas Sirk and Todd Haynes – Maria Makela: Artificial Silk Girls: Rayon as Silk’s Double in Weimar Germany – Brigitte Marschall: X-ray Images as the Body’s Double: From The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann to the Holy Mountain in the Life and Death of Christoph Schlingensief.

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