Description
Constructing the Viennese Modern Body
Art, Hysteria, and the Puppet
Studies in Art Historiography Series
Author: Timpano Nathan
Language: EnglishSubjects for Constructing the Viennese Modern Body:
Keywords
Hystero Theatrical Gestures; expressionism; Viennese Modern Body; psychoanalysis; Deutsche Kunst Und Dekoration; symbolism; Viennese Expressionism; iconography; Viennese Modern; performance; Pathological Body; avant-garde; Corporeal Gestures; Sigmund Freud; Oskar Kokoschka; Egon Schiele; Nude Self-Portrait; Kokoschka’s Painting; Gustav Klimt; Tuesday Lectures; visual culture; Modern Puppet; medicine; Outer Vision; theater; Vienna Court Opera; art; Optical Sight; Austria; Wayang Golek; Vienna; Young Man; body; Expressionistic Sight; modern; Big Bang Launch; Javanese Shadow Puppet; Modern Body; Hysterical Attacks; Dreaming Youths; Galerie Im Lenbachhaus; Hofmannsthal’s Elektra
Publication date: 12-2020
· 17.4x24.6 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 05-2017
· 17.4x24.6 cm · Hardback
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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.
List of Illustrations
List of Plates
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Conundrum of the Viennese Modern Body
1 “The Semblance of Things”: Re-Visioning Viennese Expressionism
2 “The Woman Emerges”: Medical Vision and the Spectacle of Hysteria
3 Performing Hysteria: A Vogue for Hystero-Theatrical Gestures
4 A Tale of Three Hysterics: Elektra, Isolde, and Salome
5 The Inanimate Body Speaks: The Language of the Marionette Theater
6 Pathological Puppets: The Body and the Marionette in Viennese Expressionism
Nathan J. Timpano is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Miami.