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

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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367736187
• ISBN: 978-0-367-73618-7
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Studies in Art Historiography
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Europe, Theory of art, European History, ART / History / General, MEDICAL / History, ART / Subjects & Themes / Human Figure, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / European, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary, History of Medicine, Theatre Studies, History of Art, Modernism, Empires & historical states, Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus, Human figures depicted in art, Austro-Hungarian Empire, The arts: general topics