Grotesque Visions : The Science of Berlin Dada Hardback
by Dr. Thomas O. (California College of the Arts, USA) Haakenson
Part of the New Directions in German Studies series
Hardback
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Grotesque Visions focuses on the radical avant-garde interventions of Salomo Friedländer (aka Mynona), Til Brugman, and Hannah Höch as they challenged the questionable practices and evidentiary claims of late-19th- and early-20th-century science.
Demonstrating the often excessive measures that pathologists, anthropologists, sexologists, and medical professionals went to present their research in a seemingly unambiguous way, this volume shows how Friedländer/Mynona, Brugman, Höch, and other Berlin-based artists used the artistic grotesque to criticize, satirize, and subvert a variety of forms of supposed scientific objectivity. The volume concludes by examining the exhibition Grotesk!: 130 Jahre Kunst der Frechheit/Comic Grotesque: Wit and Mockery in German Arts, 1870-1940.
In contrast to the ahistorical and amorphous concept informing the exhibition, Thomas O.
Haakenson reveals a unique deployment of the artistic grotesque that targeted specific established and emerging scientific discourses at the turn of the last fin-de-siècle.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:03/06/2021
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- ISBN:9781501369902
Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:03/06/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781501369902
