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Grotesque Visions
Thomas O. Haakenson
其他書名
The Science of Berlin Dada
出版Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2021-05-06
主題Literary Criticism / European / GermanArt / EuropeanLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Semiotics & TheoryArt / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
ISBN150136992X9781501369926
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=KKomEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.