Constructing the Viennese Modern Body - Art, Hysteria, and the Puppet

List of contents

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Nathan Timpano, Nathan (University of Miami) Timpano
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.2017
• EAN: 9781138220188
• ISBN: 978-1-138-22018-8
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Studies in Art Historiography
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; austria, ART / History / General, ART / European, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Art