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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The Science of Berlin Dada
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781501369919
Publisert
2021
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic USA
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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