Thomas O. Haakenson, "Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin Dada" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Vision and the Visible in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentynth Century
The book is about vision and the visual. How a seeing was theorized, developed as a central feature of science in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in germany. The idea was that you needed to sort of empirically demonstrate how vision worked. And so am, i think, almost more than it is about the grotesque. An sfunny that were time uf vision ona non visual medium.
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