Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin Dada (New Directions in German Studies)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2021
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- ISBN-13:
- 9781501369926
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781501369902
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 05/05/21
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- Adult content:
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- Language:
- English
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- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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