The Last Days of Mankind

A Visual Guide to Karl Kraus' Great War Epic

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Great War drama by Viennese satirist Karl Kraus, restaged by Sengl in "stunning display" of taxidermied rat-actors, with commentary.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greyt Companion Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 206mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780999754412
• ISBN-10: 0999754416
• Artikelnr.: 50509764

Autorenporträt

Matthias Goldmann is a writer and translator. He has published essays, poetry, and stories, has created and exhibited computer text animations, and has cooperated with visual artists and authors on various projects and publications including coauthoring the artist monograph Franz West: Man with a Ball (Rizzoli, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Deborah Sengl's Karl Kraus
Marjorie Perloff
The Mousetrap
The Turn to Abstraction
Representation
"The Document Is a Figure"
Matthias Goldmann
Conversion of Horror into Words
Operetta Figures Play out the Tragedy of Mankind
Come Forward and Be Silent
Masks of the Tragic Carnival
Flesh for Blood and Blood for Ink
The Word Died
Trench Rats
Anna C. Souchuk
Miniatures
Taxidermy and Tableau: An Invitation to Look at Animals
Metaphorical Animals: The Role of Rats in the Stories Humans Tell
The Last Days of Mankind [installation images and excerpts from Karl Kraus'
play]
Deborah Sengl
Afterword
Paul Reitter
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments