Constructing the Viennese Modern Body

Art, Hysteria, and the Puppet
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-22018-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 180 mm x 251 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

Reihe: Studies in Art Historiography

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Timpano, Nathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Menschen, Häusliches Umfeld

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Nathan J. Timpano is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Miami.