Title: Constructing the Viennese Modern Body
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.
Subjects: Body art, Art, austrian, Austrian Art, Human figure in art, Puppets in art, Modern Art, Themes, motives, Art autrichien, Corps humain dans l'art, ART, History, General, Body image in the performing arts, Puppet theater, Körper, Körperbild, Puppe, Kunst, Theater, Expressionismus, Frau, Hysterie, Marionettenspiel, Theatralität