Format:
xi, 209 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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26 cm
ISBN:
9781138220188
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1138220183
Series Statement:
Studies in art historiography 12
Content:
"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
Content:
Introduction: a conundrum of the Viennese modern body -- "The semblance of things": re-visioning Viennese expressionism -- "The woman emerges": medical vision and the spectacle of hysteria -- Performing hysteria: a vogue for hystero-theatrical gestures -- A tale of three hysterics: Elektra, Isolde, and Salome -- The inanimate body speaks: the language of the marionette theater -- Pathological puppets: the body and the marionette in Viennese expressionism
Note:
"An Ashgate book"--Cover
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-201) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781315413693
Language:
English
Keywords:
Wien
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Theater
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Marionettenspiel
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Kunst
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Theatralität
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Hysterie
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Körper
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Frau
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Puppe
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Körperbild
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Expressionismus
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Geschichte 1900-1920
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