Grotesque visions

Grotesque visions

by Haakenson, Thomas O.

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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 Ber…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Grotesque visions / by Thomas O. Haakenson.

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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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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2021

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Academic
  • Place of Publication:New York, NY
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2021

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xi, 260 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781501369926, 150136992X, 1501369911, 9781501369919
  • oclc:on1240264903
  • LC Classification:NX650.G7
  • Dewey Decimal:700/.415

Subjects

Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- History. --… Criticism, interpretation, etc German literature German literature -- History and critic… Germany -- Berlin Grotesque dans l'art Grotesque dans la littérature Grotesque in art Grotesque in literature History Literature, Experimental Literature, Experimental -- History and… Littérature allemande -- Histoire et cr… Littérature expérimentale -- Histoire e… Science in art Science in literature Sciences dans l'art Sciences dans la littérature

Writers

Haakenson, Thomas O.

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