Constructing the Viennese Modern Body
Subtitle: Art, Hysteria and the Puppet
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781138220188
Subjects: Body art; Art, austrian
Description: "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."--Page i.