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Mar
30
2017

Alys George, "Egon Schiele in the Clinic: Medicine, Motherhood, and Viennese Modernism"

When: Thursday, March 30, 2017
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM CT

Where: Kresge Hall, Kaplan Seminar Room, 2350, 1880 Campus Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Erica Suzanne Weitzman  

Group: Comparative Modernisms Workshop

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:


The Comparative Modernisms Workshop

in conjunction with the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, the Department of German, the Department of Art History, the Science in Human Cultures Program, and the Global Avant-garde and Modernisms Cluster, presents:

Alys George (NYU)

Egon Schiele in the Clinic: Medicine, Motherhood, and Viennese Modernism

Thursday, March 30, 5pm
Kaplan Seminar Room, Kresge 2350

Free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.


Alys George is Assistant Professor of German a​t​​ New York University​​. Her areas of specialty include 20th- and 21st-century Austrian and German literature, cultural history, and visual culture; Viennese modernism; history of the body; ​and ​medical humanities.​ ​

Egon Schiele in the Clinic: Medicine, Motherhood, and Viennese Modernism
“Pathological” was a damning term frequently applied to the visual art of Viennese modernism. Yet while the nudes of Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, and others diverged sharply from the classical pictorial tradition, they emerged alongside a contemporaneous trend: the increasing presence of medical imagery in the city’s visual vernacular. In the decades after 1900, the bodies of working-class Viennese—women and children, in particular—came to occupy a central place in films, lectures, exhibitions, and popular literature. The medicalized gaze of “pathological” portraiture, this lecture argues, was fostered by a complex Viennese social network of physicians, artists, writers, and politicians—all of whom staked their claims on the mother’s body to vastly different ends.

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