Foreword: An Extraordinary Transdisciplinary Artist Daniel Birnbaum, The Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden 1. Introduction: Visual Culture, August Strindberg, and The Double Image of Modernity Eszter Szalczer, Anna Westerstahl Stenport, and Jonathan Schroeder 2. Hands, Dissection, and Embodied Seeing: Strindberg and Munch Allison Morehead, Queen’s University, Canada 3. May the Force Be With You”: Strindberg's Paintings Arnold Weinstein, Brown University, USA 4. Strindberg the Environmentalist? Blood-stained Landscapes and the French Tradition of Nature Painting Eszter Szalczer, University at Albany, SUNY, USA 5. Ghosts of the Brain Made Real: Anti-theatricality, Visuality, and Disembodiment Across Strindberg’s Late Chamber Media Amy Holzapfel, Williams College, USA 6. Méliès’s Dream Film and Strindberg’s Dream Play: Compressing Time and Space Scott MacKenzie, Queen’s University, Canada, and Anna Westerståhl Stenport, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 7. Strindberg and the Images of the Stage: A Dramaturg’s Perspective Magnus Florin, The Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden 8. Staging Strindberg’s A Dream Play: A Visual Essay Robert Wilson, Artist and Director 9. Robert Wilson’s Photographic Elements of A Dream Play Jonathan Schroeder, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA 10. Dream-Playing the Archive: Exploring the 1915-18 Düsseldorf production of A Dream Play Astrid von Rosen, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 11. Anticipations of the Digital: Dispersing Strindberg Berndt Clavier, Malmö University, Sweden, and Timothy Engström, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA 12. Picturing Miss Julie: Gender and Visuality in Performance Practice Kristina Hagström-Ståhl, Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Art, Sweden 13. Strindberg’s Self-Portraits in Context Lisa Hostetler, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York, USA 14. My Strindberg Selfies Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark 15. Scenography, Photography, Cinematography: Strindberg and the Technologies of Visual Representation Freddie Rokem, Tel Aviv University, Israel 16. Liv Ullmann’s Miss Julie: An Interview with Reflections Liv Ullmann, Director and Actress
First book to align critical image studies and analyses of the emergence of modern technology and visual culture with the drama, fiction, philosophical, and artistic practices of August Strindberg (1849-1912).
Jonathan Schroeder is William A. Kern Professor in Communications at Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. Anna Westerstahl Stenport is Chair and Professor in the School of Modern Languages at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. Eszter Szalczer is Professor of Theatre and Head of History, Literature and Criticism of the Theatre Program at the University at Albany, New York, USA.
August Strindberg was not only a leading innovator in the modern
theatre but also in modern art, in a new visual culture, on stage
and on canvas. This highly stimulating book brings together a range
of younger researchers, practitioners, artists, and prominent
intellectuals to reassess a major literary figure from the
perspective of visual theory and art history.
*Göran Söderström, Professor Emeritus of Art History, Lund
University and Stockholm University, Sweden, head of the Strindberg
Museum (1973-1990), and author of Strindbergs måleri (2017)*
This interdisciplinary collection brings together essays by
Strindberg scholars, theater directors, and literary and cultural
theorists that explore the interplay between writing, photography,
painting, and modernity in Strindberg’s work. A welcome
contribution to Strindberg’s scholarship, August Strindberg and
Visual Culture illuminates the relationship of his work as a whole
to visual cultures and different media since the turn of the last
century.
*Lynne R. Wilkinson, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages,
Comparative Literature, and Women's and Gender Studies, University
of Texas at Austin, USA*
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