Constructing the Viennese Modern Body: Art, Hysteria, and the Puppet

By Nathan J Timpano

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367736187
• ISBN13: 9780367736187
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.6"