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Constructing the Viennese Modern Body: Art, Hysteria, and the Puppet / Edition 1
Constructing the Viennese Modern Body: Art, Hysteria, and the Puppet / Edition 1

Constructing the Viennese Modern Body: Art, Hysteria, and the Puppet / Edition 1 in Bloomington, MN

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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.
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