 | Constructing the Viennese Modern Body: Art, Hysteria, and the Puppet Subjects: Arts; Humanities; Medicine Dentistry Nursing & Allied Health; Art & Visual Culture; Theatre & Performance Studies; History; Medicine; History of Art; Visual Culture; Theatre History; European History; Medical History; Modern Art; 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. Nathan J. Timpano is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Miami. |
