Grotesque Visions

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"Grotesque Visions examines the Berlin Dada artists-such as Salomo Friedlñder (aka Mynona), Til Brugman, and Hannah Höch-who criticized, satirized, and subverted, through their use of the artistic grotesque, the scientific practices and evidentiary claims of late-19th- and early-20th-century scientists. Demonstrating how pathologists, anthropologists, sexologists, and medical scientists who went to excessive measures to create professional and public environments in which they could present their research in a seemingly unambiguous way, this volume shows how the practices and responses of Dada artists challenged these forms of supposed scientific objectivity. The volume concludes by examining a recent exhibition: Grotesk!: 130 Jahre Kunst der Frechheit / Comic Grotesque: Wit and Mockery in German Arts, 1870-1940 , which traveled through Europe and the United States between 2003 and 2005. In contrast to the exhibition, Thomas O. Haakenson reveals a unique deployment of the artistic grotesque at the turn of the last fin-de-sic̈le ."--

subjects: Dadaism,  Art and society,  History,  Modern Arts,  Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers,  Grotesque in art,  Grotesque in literature,  Science in art,  Science in literature,  Avant-garde (Aesthetics),  German literature,  History and criticism,  Experimental Literature