Re/Casting Kokoschka : Ethics and Aesthetics, Epistemology and Politics in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna,9780838639054

Re/Casting Kokoschka : Ethics and Aesthetics, Epistemology and Politics in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna

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ISBN13: 9780838639054
ISBN10: 0838639054
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-06-01
Publisher(s): Associated Univ Pr
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Summary

This interpretive study of Kokoschka's Expressionist work critically examines the claims for "truth" often made on behalf of Kokoschka's portraits, as well as the fundamental assumptions underlying his portraiture: the interchangeability of the physical and psychological, the psychological veracity of mythical narratives, and the ability of style to convey ethical and epistemological truth. This study also draws attention to the numerous parallels between Kokoschka's Expressionism and Freudian psychoanalysis, to the ways in which style in Vienna in 1900 could convey political (especially antifeminist and anti-Semitic) meanings.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 9(4)
Introduction: Vienna 1900: Aesthetics in a New Key 13(8)
Body and Soul: Kokoschka's The Warrior, Truth, and the Interchangeability of the Physical and Psychological in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
21(30)
Artist as Christ/Artist as Criminal: Kokoschka's Self-Portrait for Der Sturm, Myth, and the Construction of Identity in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
51(22)
Pseudoscience and Mythic Misogyny: Murderer, Hope of Women and Antifeminism in Vienna 1900
73(28)
Kokoschka and Freud: Parallel Logics in the Exegetical and Rhetorical Strategies of Expressionism and Psychoanalysis
101(22)
The Impossibility of Jewish Assimilation: Kokoschka, Kraus, Loos, and the Anti-Semitic Politics of Style in Vienna 1900
123(28)
Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of the Loos Circle: Truth and Metaphor in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
151(26)
Conclusion: The Power of Rhetoric in Vienna 1900
177(18)
Notes 195(32)
Selected Bibliography 227(8)
Index 235

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