Pseudo-science and mythic misogyny: Oskar Kokoschka's 'Murderer, Hope of Women.'.

From: The Art Bulletin | Date: March 1, 1999| Author: Cernuschi, Claude | Copyright information

This essay examines Oskar Kokoschka's play Murderer, Hope of Women in the context of the antifeminine views of fin de siecle culture, paying particular attention to the ways art, science, philology, and the philosophy of history all contributed to reinforce the cultural and political disenfranchisement of women. In addition to investigating the intellectual assumptions underlying Murderer, the essay also argues that formal strategies had highly specific political meanings in Vienna 19149 and ...

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