Nathan Timpano

Constructing the Viennese Modern Body (eBook, PDF)

Art, Hysteria, and the Puppet

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315413686
• Artikelnr.: 48423108

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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