Constructing The Viennese Modern Body Art Hysteria And The Puppet | Visual Studies

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. |Constructing the Viennese Modern Body Art Hysteria and the Puppet | Visual Studies