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My Own Private Germany
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ISBN: 0691026289 0691026270 1400821894 1282752383 9786612752384 1400813263 9781400821891 9781282752382 140080695X Year: 2001 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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In November 1893, Daniel Paul Schreber, recently named presiding judge of the Saxon Supreme Court, was on the verge of a psychotic breakdown and entered a Leipzig psychiatric clinic. He would spend the rest of the nineteenth century in mental institutions. Once released, he published his Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1903), a harrowing account of real and delusional persecution, political intrigue, and states of sexual ecstasy as God's private concubine. Freud's famous case study of Schreber elevated the Memoirs into the most important psychiatric textbook of paranoia. In light of Eric Santner's analysis, Schreber's text becomes legible as a sort of "nerve bible" of fin-de-siècle preoccupations and obsessions, an archive of the very phantasms that would, after the traumas of war, revolution, and the end of empire, coalesce into the core elements of National Socialist ideology. The crucial theoretical notion that allows Santner to pass from the "private" domain of psychotic disturbances to the "public" domain of the ideological and political genesis of Nazism is the "crisis of investiture." Schreber's breakdown was precipitated by a malfunction in the rites and procedures through which an individual is endowed with a new social status: his condition became acute just as he was named to a position of ultimate symbolic authority. The Memoirs suggest that we cross the threshold of modernity into a pervasive atmosphere of crisis and uncertainty when acts of symbolic investiture no longer usefully transform the subject's self understanding. At such a juncture, the performative force of these rites of institution may assume the shape of a demonic persecutor, some "other" who threatens our borders and our treasures. Challenging other political readings of Schreber, Santner denies that Schreber's delusional system--his own private Germany--actually prefigured the totalitarian solution to this defining structural crisis of modernity. Instead, Santner shows how this tragic figure succeeded in avoiding the totalitarian temptation by way of his own series of perverse identifications, above all with women and Jews.


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Ästhetik der Moderne : Literatur und Bild
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ISBN: 3770536312 9783770536313 Year: 2001 Publisher: München Fink

Visiones de Estereoscopio : Paradigma de hibridación en la ficción y el arte de la vanguardia española
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ISBN: 146963922X 9781469639222 0807892769 9780807892763 Year: 2001 Publisher: Chapel Hill : Baltimore, Md. : U.N.C. Dept. of Romance Languages, Project MUSE,


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Surface and depth : Early Modernism in Finland 1890-1920 : [catalogue]
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ISBN: 951532274X 9789515322746 Year: 2001 Publisher: Helsinki Ateneum Art Museum

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Ce catalogue fait un apercu général des influences du modernisme et sur les formes que ce mouvement a eu comme essor en Finlande. La période du modenisme commence pour les auteurs du catalogue avec la période du néo-romantisme ou du symbolisme vers 1890. Les méthodes picturales et leurs contenus adoptés durant cette période ont pris des formes variées durant le début du 20ème siècle et ce jusqu'en 1910.

Antimodernism and artistic experience : policing the boundaries of modernity
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ISBN: 0802048218 0802083544 1442623101 1442655666 Year: 2001 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,

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Scholars in art history, anthropology, history, and feminist media studies explore Western antimodernism of the turn of the 20th century as an artistic response to a perceived loss of 'authentic' experience.

Painting gender, constructing theory
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ISBN: 0262269252 0585446598 9780262269254 9780585446592 0262024888 9780262024884 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press

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How critical conceptions of gender and sexuality helped to advance the artistic careers of the Alfred Stieglitz Circle and influenced American formalist aesthetics.After the closing of his first art gallery in 1917, photographer Alfred Stieglitz reemerged in the New York art world in the 1920s. He achieved his comeback in large part through the innovative means he used to promote himself and the artists of his inner circle. Stieglitz and a number of well-established critics drew on period conceptions of sexuality, gender, and cultural identity to characterize the artists he championed as the fulfillment of a shared vision of a vital, nonrepressed American art.In Painting Gender, Constructing Theory, Marcia Brennan examines how Stieglitz and the critics drew on early-twentieth-century discourses on sex and the psyche, particularly the theories of Sigmund Freud and Havelock Ellis, to characterize the artworks of the Stieglitz circle. Critics routinely described the often highly abstracted paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe, Arthur Dove, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, and Charles Demuth as transparent displays of the most intimate aspects of the self, taking both subject matter and painterly form to be guided by the artist's own gendered and psychic energies.Focusing on the key historical criticism and artworks, Brennan shows how the identities of all five Stieglitz circle artists were presented in terms of the masculinity and femininity, and the heterosexuality and homosexuality, thought to be embedded in their work. Brennan also discusses Stieglitz's relation to competing artistic and critical movements, including Thomas Hart Benton's regionalist art and Clement Greenberg's reformulation of formalism. Arguing that American formalist criticism consisted of a complex and paradoxical mixture of corporeality and disembodied transcendence, Brennan provides insight not only into the works of the Stieglitz circle but into the development of formalist criticism itself.

Art nouveau and the social vision of modern living : belgian artists in european context
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ISBN: 0521643287 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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