Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin Dada (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781501369902)

Grotesque Visions focuses on the radical avant-garde interventions of Salomo Friedl舅der (aka Mynona), Til Brugman, and Hannah Hh 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 Friedl舅der/Mynona, Brugman, Hh, 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-si鐵le.

Author: Thomas O. Haakenson
ISBN-10: 1501369903
ISBN-13: 9781501369902
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 06/03/2021
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2022