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Description of  Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin Dada (New Directions in German Studies)

Grotesque Visions focuses on the radical avant-garde interventions of Salomo Friedlnder (aka Mynona), Til Brugman, and Hannah Hch 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 Friedlnder/Mynona, Brugman, Hch, 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 /. In contrast to the ahistorical and amorphous concept informing the exhibition, Thomas O. Haakenson reveals a unique deployment of the artistic grotesque that targeted specific established and emerging scientific discourses at the turn of the last. Read more