Naked Truth
Naked Truth Viennese modernism is often described in terms of a fin-de-si clefascination with the psyche. The Naked Truth, an interdisciplinary tour de force, addresses this lacuna, fundamentally…
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Naked Truth
Viennese modernism is often described in terms of a fin-de-si clefascination with the psyche. The Naked Truth, an interdisciplinary tour de force, addresses this lacuna, fundamentally recasting the visual, literary, and performative cultures of Viennese modernism through an innovative focus on the corporeal.Alys X. But this stereotype of the movement as essentially cerebral overlooks a rich cultural history of the body.
As she traces the results of this materialist influence across a broad range of cultural forms--exhibitions, literature, portraiture, dance, film, and more--George brings into dialogue a diverse group of historical protagonists, from canonical figures like Egon Schiele, Arthur George explores the modernist focus on the flesh by turning our attention to the second Vienna medical school, which revolutionized the field of anatomy in the 1800s.