Constructing the Viennese Modern Body - Art, Hysteria, and the Puppet (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in Art Historiography
Release date:	December 2020
First published:	2017
Authors:	Nathan Timpano
Dimensions:	246 x 174mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	210
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-73618-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > Theory of art Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General
LSN:	0-367-73618-7
Barcode:	9780367736187

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