• ISBN13: 9781138220188
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge
• Publication Date: May 23, 2017
• Pages: 264
• Original Price: GBP 145.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 704 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): European / General, Subjects & Themes / Human Figure, and Movements / Modernism

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.