The Doppelgaenger

by Deborah Ascher Barnstone (Editor)

Overview

The Doppelgänger - the double, twin, mirror image or alter ego of someone else - is a universal theme that has been prevalent in German culture since the Romantic period. This volume explores the phenomenon of the double in multiple aspects of German visual culture, from painting and classical ballet to film and photography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783034319614
Publisher:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	04/26/2016
Series:	German Visual Culture , #3
Pages:	273
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

About the Author

Deborah Ascher Barnstone is Professor of Architecture and Associate Head of School in the Department of Architecture at University of Technology Sydney. She is a licensed architect and principal with Ascher Barnstone Architects as well as an art historian. Her primary research interests are twentieth- and twenty-first century German and Dutch art and architecture and classical modernism. Her most recent book, Beyond the Bauhaus: Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918–1933 (2016), scrutinizes the so-called dichotomy in interwar German cultural production. Barnstone edits the book series German Visual Culture with Thomas O. Haakenson.

Table of Contents

Contents: Deborah Ascher Barnstone: Introduction: The Overlooked Trope of the Doppelgänger – Lori A. Felton: Beyond The Self-Seers: The Creative Strategies within Egon Schiele’s Double Self-Portraiture – April A. Eisman: From Double Burden to Double Vision: The Doppelgänger in Doris Ziegler’s Paintings of Women in East Germany – Paul Monty Paret: Jean Paul at the Bauhaus: Oskar Schlemmer’s Doppelgängers – Deborah Ascher Barnstone: Seeing Double: The Doppelgänger in Two Interpretations of the Ballet Classic The Nutcracker, by John Neumeier and Marco Goecke – Nathan J. Timpano: Body Doubles: The Puppe as Doppelgänger in Fin-de-Siècle Viennese Visual Culture – Isa Murdock-Hinrichs: The Remake as Double: Space, Media, and the Irrational in Michael Haneke’s Funny Games – Thomas O. Haakenson/Andrew Felicilda: Melodrama and its Doubles: The Films of Douglas Sirk and Todd Haynes – Maria Makela: Artificial Silk Girls: Rayon as Silk’s Double in Weimar Germany – Brigitte Marschall: X-ray Images as the Body’s Double: From The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann to the Holy Mountain in the Life and Death of Christoph Schlingensief.