Constructing the Viennese Modern Body
Art, Hysteria, and the Puppet
Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, Art History, European, General Art
| Author: | Nathan J. Timpano | ISBN: | 9781315413679 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | May 25, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | Nathan J. Timpano |
| ISBN: | 9781315413679 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | May 25, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
