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The naked truth : Viennese modernism and the body / Alys X. George

George, Alys X. [Verfasser]

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021

Oxford : Oxford University Press

1 Online-Ressource (328 pages) : Illustrations (black and white).

Chicago scholarship online

Previously issued in print: 2020

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-226-69500-6 ; 978-0-22-666998-4

 

Wien  Österreich  Literatur  Kunst  Tanz  Körper, Motiv  Geschichte 1800-1914 

 

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Viennese modernism is often described in terms of a fin-de-siècle fascination with the psyche. But this stereotype of the movement as essentially cerebral overlooks a cultural history of the body. This title, an interdisciplinary tour de force, addresses this lacuna, fundamentally recasting visual, literary, and performative cultures of Viennese modernism through an innovative focus on the corporeal. George explores the modernist focus on the flesh by turning our attention to the second Vienna medical school, which revolutionised the field of anatomy in the 1800s. As she traces the results of this materialist influence across a range of cultural forms, she brings into dialogue a diverse group of historical protagonists. Analyses are blended between popular and 'high' culture, laying to rest the notion that Viennese modernism was an exclusively male movement.