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Author Cernuschi, Claude, 1961-

Title Re/casting Kokoschka : ethics and aesthetics, epistemology and politics in fin-de-siècle Vienna / Claude Cernuschi
Published Madison, NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, [2002]
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Description 239 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
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
Summary "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. Adolf Loos and the satirist Karl Kraus - differentiated Expressionism from Art Nouveau (the style practiced by Gustav Klimt). Art Nouveau, it was claimed, was decorative and superficial, while Expressionism, conversely, revealed the "truth" of human emotional states. Klimt's work was decried as deceptive and decadent, while Kokoschka's was touted as perceptive and profound."
"This book outlines how the concerns for truth expressed by Loos, Kraus, and Kokoschka for architecture, language, and art, respectively, were also shared by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. And although Wittgenstein's early work strongly reflects the ideas of Loos, Kraus, and Kokoschka, his later work is shown to move in an opposite direction. Intriguingly, a close scrutiny of Wittgenstein's later philosophy reveals serious criticisms of the ideas endorsed by Kokoschka's intellectual circle, as well as of many of the assumptions held by fin-de-siecle artists and intellectuals about the interconnections of ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, and politics. This book has sixty-five figures."--Cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-234) and index
Subject Kokoschka, Oskar, 1886-1980 -- Criticism and interpretation.
SUBJECT Vienna (Austria) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018895 -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006346
Vienna (Austria) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018895 -- Intellectual life http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005642 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Author Kokoschka, Oskar, 1886-1980.
LC no. 2001054728
ISBN 0838639054 alkaline paper
Other Titles Recasting Kokoschka