Constructing the Viennese Modern Body

This book takes a new, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing modern Viennese visual culture, one informed by Austro-German theater, contemporary medical treatises centered on hysteria, and an original examination of dramatic gestures in expressionist artworks.

Nathan J. Timpano is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Miami.

List of Illustrations List of Plates Acknowledgments Introduction: A Conundrum of the Viennese Modern Body 1 "The Semblance of Things": Re-Visioning Viennese Expressionism 2 "The Woman Emerges": Medical Vision and the Spectacle of Hysteria 3 Performing Hysteria: A Vogue for Hystero-Theatrical Gestures 4 A Tale of Three Hysterics: Elektra, Isolde, and Salome 5 The Inanimate Body Speaks: The Language of the Marionette Theater 6 Pathological Puppets: The Body and the Marionette in Viennese Expressionism