{"product_id":"constructing-the-viennese-modern-body-9781138220188","title":"Constructing the Viennese Modern Body","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 âœhystericalâ 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I cannot begin to do justice to this book in this brief review. As a lay reader interested in gender, sexuality, and the history of the body, I approached the book with great curiosity and I was not disappointed.\"\u003cbr\u003e-- \u003cem\u003eGerman Studies Review \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Alongside all of the quickly and superficially produced publications on Viennese modernism, Timpano's book pleasantly stands out - as a very serious study written with a highly scientific ethos.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-- \u003ci\u003eJournal of Art Historiography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Timpano writes with confidence and authority on art history…[his] perspective on some of the better known developments in twentieth-century European puppetry will be of interest to readers.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-- \u003ci\u003ePuppetry International\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I cannot begin to do justice to this book in this brief review. As a lay reader interested in gender, sexuality, and the history of the body, I approached the book with great curiosity and I was not disappointed.\"\u003cbr\u003e-- \u003cem\u003eGerman Studies Review \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Alongside all of the quickly and superficially produced publications on Viennese modernism, Timpano's book pleasantly stands out - as a very serious study written with a highly scientific ethos.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-- \u003ci\u003eJournal of Art Historiography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Timpano writes with confidence and authority on art history…[his] perspective on some of the better known developments in twentieth-century European puppetry will be of interest to readers.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-- \u003ci\u003ePuppetry International\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of Illustrations \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of Plates \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: A Conundrum of the Viennese Modern Body \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 “The Semblance of Things”: Re-Visioning Viennese Expressionism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 “The Woman Emerges”: Medical Vision and the Spectacle of Hysteria \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Performing Hysteria: A Vogue for Hystero-Theatrical Gestures \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 A Tale of Three Hysterics: Elektra, Isolde, and Salome \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 The Inanimate Body Speaks: The Language of the Marionette Theater \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Pathological Puppets: The Body and the Marionette in Viennese Expressionism \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407216157015,"sku":"9781138220188","price":128.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/constructing-the-viennese-modern-body-9781138220188","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}