Olimpia Revisited. Variations on a Theme by E. T. A. Hoffmann in 20th Century Avant-Garde Art
Olimpia Revisited. Variations on a Theme by E. T. A. Hoffmann in 20th Century Avant-Garde Art
Author(s): Judit BarthaSubject(s): Cultural history, Photography, Visual Arts, Aesthetics, Recent History (1900 till today), German Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature, History of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Romanticism; Gothic Fiction; Android; Avant-Garde; Fine Arts;
Summary/Abstract: The long reception of the doll Olimpia in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Sandmann represents the change of the ideologies concerning androids. The paper focuses on three transformations of the Romantic creature in 20th century Avant-garde art, namely, in works by Max Ernst, Oskar Schlemmer, and Cindy Sherman. It is aimed at showing how the machine myth of the 18th and 19th centuries, closely related to Gothic Romanticism, could become an important part of 20th century art.
Journal: Estetyka i Krytyka
- Issue Year: 59/2020
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 59-76
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English