{"product_id":"9781501369902","title":"Grotesque Visions","description":"Grotesque Visions 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.  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 O. Haakenson reveals a unique deployment of the artistic grotesque that targeted specific established and emerging scientific discourses at the turn of the last fin-de-siècle.","brand":"Thomas O. Haakenson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46896527606078,"sku":"9781501369902","price":3973.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9781501369902_c8cccf61-de22-4e7f-8a5c-186b944e0209.jpg?v=1707508685","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9781501369902","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}