Nathan J. Timpano

Bio

Nathan J. Timpano is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Miami, where he conducts research on modern art and visual culture in Europe and the Americas, with a specialty in German and Austrian Expressionism. He is author of Constructing the Viennese Modern Body: Art, Hysteria, and the Puppet (Routledge, 2017). You can find more about Nathan on Academia.edu, Instagram, and at his faculty page.

Contributions

A Language of Esoteric Signs: Deciphering Jewish and Masonic Gestures in Viennese Expressionism

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Herr [Gustav] Klimt indoctrinates Frau [Serena] Lederer into the art of Secessionist painting. This rapprochement between modern art and nouveau-riche Jews, this progress in the art of design, capable of transforming ghettos into affluent quarters, warrants the loveliest of hopes. [1] —Karl Kraus, Die Fackel (November 1900) In his dryly sardonic “praise” of Jewish patronage in relation to the then-dominant Secessionist aesthetic, the polemical critic Karl Kraus (1874–1936)—who, not...

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