Abstract
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.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
| Number of pages | 209 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781315413686 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781138220188 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 25 2017 |
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Constructing the Viennese modern body : Art, hysteria, and the puppet. / Timpano, Nathan.
Taylor and Francis, 2017. 209 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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