Constructing the Viennese Modern Body: Art, Hysteria, and the Puppet (Studies in Art Historiography)

By: Nathan J. Timpano

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 210 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781315413679
Related ISBNs:: 9781315413693, 9781138220188, 9781138220188
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 05/06/19
Copyrighted By:: Taylor and Francis
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Drama, Plays and Theater, Medicine
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.