Re/casting Kokoschka : ethics and aesthetics, epistemology and politics in fin-de-siècle Vienna /

"Re/Casting Kokoschka is an interpretive study of Kokoschka's early Expressionist portraiture within the context of the intellectual, political, and artistic crossfire of fin-de-siecle Viennese culture. The text investigates the way Kokoschka, as well as his major patrons - the architect....

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Main Author: Cernuschi, Claude, 1961-
Other Authors: Kokoschka, Oskar, 1886-1980
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Madison [N.J.] : London : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press : Associated University Presses, c2002
Madison [N.J.] : London : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Associated University Presses, c2002
Madison [N.J.] : London ; Cranbury, NJ : c2002
Madison, NJ : London : c2002
Madison, NJ : London : ©2002
Madison, [N.J.] : London ; Cranbury, NJ : [2002], ©2002
Madison, [N.J.] : London ; Cranbury, NJ : c2002
Madison, [N.J.] : London ; Cranbury, NJ : [2002]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Vienna 1900: Aesthetics in a New Key
  • 1 Body and Soul: Kokoschka's The Warrior, Truth, and the Interchangeability of the Physical and Psychological in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
  • 2. Artist as Christ/Artist as Criminal: Kokoschka's Self-Portrait for Der Sturm, Myth, and the Construction of Identity in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
  • 3. Pseudoscience and Mythic Misogyny: Murderer, Hope of Women and Antifeminism in Vienna 1900
  • 4. Kokoschka and Freud: Parallel Logics in the Exegetical and Rhetorical Strategies of Expressionism and Psychoanalysis
  • 5. The Impossibility of Jewish Assimilation: Kokoschka, Kraus, Loos, and the Anti-Semitic Politics of Style in Vienna 1900
  • 6. Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of the Loos Circle: Truth and Metaphor in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
  • 7. Conclusion: The Power of Rhetoric in Vienna 1900.
  • Introduction: Vienna 1900: Aesthetics in a New Key
  • 1 Body and Soul: Kokoschka's The Warrior, Truth, and the Interchangeability of the Physical and Psychological in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
  • 2. Artist as Christ/Artist as Criminal: Kokoschka's Self-Portrait for Der Sturm, Myth, and the Construction of Identity in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
  • 3. Pseudoscience and Mythic Misogyny: Murderer, Hope of Women and Antifeminism in Vienna 1900
  • 4. Kokoschka and Freud: Parallel Logics in the Exegetical and Rhetorical Strategies of Expressionism and Psychoanalysis
  • 5. The Impossibility of Jewish Assimilation: Kokoschka, Kraus, Loos, and the Anti-Semitic Politics of Style in Vienna 1900.