Grotesque Visions
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Grotesque Visions

The Science of Berlin Dada

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Grotesque Visions

The Science of Berlin Dada

About this book

Grotesque Visions focuses on the radical avant-garde interventions of Salomo FriedlÀnder (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 FriedlÀnder/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-siÚcle.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781501369940
eBook ISBN
9781501369919
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Art
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication Page
  4. Contents 
  5. List of Figures
  6. A Note on Style and Sources
  7. 1 The Return of the Grotesque
  8. 2 The Science of Berlin Dada: Salomo FriedlÀnder, Walter Benjamin, and the Grotesque
  9. 3 The Architectonics of Public Science: “Learning to See” in Rudolf Virchow’s Museum of Pathology
  10. 4 Sexuality ad oculos: Sigmund Freud and Magnus Hirschfeld Meet Til Brugman’s “Celluloid Children”
  11. 5 The Optics of Evidence: Photography and Vision in Early Anthropology
  12. 6 Visual Objectivity Meets Impossible Object: Hannah Höch “From an Ethnographic Museum” Photomontages
  13. 7 Learning to See Grotesquely
  14. Coda: Toward a Critique of the Dogma of Visuality
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index
  18. Imprint