{"product_id":"grotesque-visions","title":"Grotesque Visions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrotesque Visions\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the radical avant-garde interventions of  Salomo Friedländer (aka Mynona), Til Brugman, and Hannah Höch 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 Friedländer\/Mynona, Brugman, Höch, and other Berlin-based artists used the artistic grotesque to criticize, satirize, and subvert a variety of forms of supposed scientific objectivity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The volume concludes by examining the exhibition \u003ci\u003eGrotesk!: 130 Jahre Kunst der Frechheit\u003c\/i\u003e\/\u003ci\u003eComic Grotesque: Wit and Mockery in German Arts, 1870-1940\u003c\/i\u003e. 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\u003ci\u003e fin-de-siècle\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54219735728472,"sku":"9781501369940","price":38.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781501369940.jpg?v=1770267640","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/grotesque-visions","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}