Weimar Bodies: Fantasies about the Body in Weimar Art, Science, and Medicine

Weimar Bodies: Fantasies about the Body in Weimar Art, Science, and Medicine

While German art in the 1920s is not unique in its representational qualities and meanings, it does exemplify a particular moment in which we can identify continuities and re-readings of the body in Western culture. Weimar citizens were left with questions about their new identity and place within the world, and they worked them out in fine art and popular visual representations. Weimar Bodies brings together art works and other kinds of images to explore the range of popular ideas about Weimar bodies in order to provide a sense of how Germany saw itself in the cracked mirror of history.

By Stephanie D'Alessaandro and Sander L. Gilman

Paper, 21 pages
ISBN: 978-0935573237
©1998

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