Grotesque Visions
Grotesque Visions focuses on the radical avant-garde interventions of Salomo Friedl nder (aka Mynona), Til Brugman, and Hannah H ch as they challenged the questionable practices and evidentiary claims…
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Grotesque Visions focuses on the radical avant-garde interventions of Salomo Friedl nder (aka Mynona), Til Brugman, and Hannah H ch as they challenged the questionable practices and evidentiary claims of late-19th- and early-20th-century science. Demonstrating the often excessive measures that pathologists, anthropologists, sexologists, and medical professionals went to present their research in a seemingly unambiguous way, this volume shows how Friedl nder/Mynona, Brugman, H ch, and other Berlin-based artists used the artistic grotesque to criticize, satirize, and subvert a variety of forms of supposed scientific objectivity.The volume concludes by examining the exhibition Grotesk : 130 Jahre Kunst der Frechheit/Comic Grotesque: Wit and Mockery in German Arts, 1870-1940. In contrast to the ahistorical and amorphous concept informing the exhibition, Thomas