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Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin Dada - New Directions in German Studies Haakenson, Dr. Thomas O. (California College of the Arts, USA)
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Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin Dada - New Directions in German Studies
Haakenson, Dr. Thomas O. (California College of the Arts, USA)
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.
272 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | December 29, 2022 |
| ISBN13 | 9781501369940 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Pages | 272 |
| Dimensions | 216 × 140 × 19 mm · 360 g |
| Language | English |
