Jonathan Schroeder - August Strindberg and Visual Culture: The Emergence of Optical Modernity in Image, Text and Theatre

August Strindberg
and Visual Culture

August Strindberg
and Visual Culture

The Emergence of Optical Modernity
in Image, Text and Theatre

Edited by
Jonathan Schroeder, Anna Westerstahl Stenport
and Eszter Szalczer

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Daniel Birnbaum is the Director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden. He was co-curator of the 2003 Venice Biennale and director of the 2009 Venice Biennale. He is a regular contributor to Artforum, and a professor at the European Graduate School. Birnbaum has a PhD in Philosophy from Stockholm University, and is a prolific writer, curator and critic. He has many books as well as translations of Novalis, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Derrida and Thomas Bernhard.

Berndt Clavier is Associate Professor in the School of Arts and Communications at Malm University in Sweden. His research explores how certain aesthetic structures which have become peculiar to the novel as a cultural form base themselves on earlier cultural patterns which are modified and transformed in order to produce new content. Current writing includes work on concepts like transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, citizenship and race.

Timothy H. Engstrm is Professor of Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. His PhD is from University of Edinburgh, Scotland, including studies at Lund University in Sweden and the Universities of Gttingen and Tbingen, Germany. He has been a Research Fellow at the University of Marburg, Germany and at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh, Scotland, and a Visiting Professor at Malm University, Sweden. He has published in the areas of rhetorical theory, aesthetics, and philosophy of technology. His most recent book, with Evan Selinger, is Rethinking Theories and Practices of Imaging.

Magnus Florin is an author, literary critic and dramaturg at Dramaten (The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden). Among his novels, The Garden (Trdgrden) is translated to English (Vagabond Press, 2014). He is co-editor with Ulf Olsson of Kra och vnda. Strindbergs efterlmnade papper (Albert Bonniers, 1999), a collection of fragments and sketches from unpublished writings of August Strindberg.

Pierre Guillet de Monthoux holds professorates at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark, Uppsala University, Sweden, and Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), Sweden. He is the Director of the Art Initiatives at CBS and SSE, and he is a member of the European Cultural Parliament. His PhD is from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. His main research focus areas include art, aesthetics and management philosophy. His books include The Art Firm: Aesthetic Management and Metaphysical Marketing from Wagner to Wilson (Stanford Business School Press), Aesthetic Leadership (Palgrave Macmillan) and The Moral Philosophy of Management (M. E. Sharpe).

Kristina Hagstrm-Sthl is Professor of Performative Arts at the Academy of Music and Drama and PARSE (Platform for Artistic Research Sweden), University of Gothenburg, Sweden, as well as a director in theatre and opera. She works at the intersection of critical theory and performance practice, with research interests in feminist performance, cultural and psychoanalytic theory, and interdisciplinary collaboration in the arts. Kristina has a PhD in Performance Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.

Amy Holzapfel is Associate Professor of Theatre at Williams College, USA. Her principal research interests include: nineteenth-century European theatre, theatre and visual culture, dance-theatre and contemporary performance. Her book, Art, Vision and Nineteenth-Century Realist Drama: Acts of Seeing (Routledge, 2014) explores how modern theories of vision in art and science impacted the rise of the realist movement in theatre. She has published articles in various anthologies and in the journals Contemporary Theatre Review, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism,Modern Drama and Theater. She received her MFA (2001) and DFA (2006) in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama and her BA from Brown University (1996).

Lisa Hostetler is Curator in Charge of the Department of Photography at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, USA. Previously, she served as curator of photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and at the Milwaukee Art Museum, and she spent several prior years working in the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hostetler holds a BA in Art History from New York University and a PhD in the History of Art from Princeton University. She has taught at New York University, Princeton University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her books include Eugene Richards: The Run-on of Time (with April M. Watson, 2017), A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age (2016), Color Rush: American Color Photography from Stieglitz to Sherman (with Katherine Bussard, 2013) and Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography, 19401959 (2009).

Scott MacKenzie (Ph.D. McGill University) is Associate Professor, and cross-appointed to the Department of Film and Media and the Graduate Program in Cultural Studies at Queens University, Canada. He has written more than 50 peer-reviewed articles and chapters on film and media, documentary film, activism, Arctic cinemas and European film and media. His books include: Cinema and Nation (with Mette Hjort, Routledge, 2000); Purity and Provocation: Dogma 95 (with Mette Hjort, BFI, 2003); Screening Qubec: Qubcois Moving Images, National Identity and the Public Sphere (Manchester University Press, 2004); The Perils of Pedagogy: The Works of John Greyson (with Brenda Longfellow and Thomas Waugh, McGill-Queens University Press, 2013); Film Manifestoes and Global Cinema Cultures (University of California Press, 2014), Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic (with Anna Westerstahl Stenport, Edinburgh University Press, 2014), Arctic Environmental Modernities: From the Age of Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene (with Lill-Ann Krber and Anna Westerstahl Stenport, Palgrave, 2017) and The Cinema, too, Must be Destroyed: The Films of Guy Debord (forthcoming, Manchester University Press).

Allison Morehead is Associate Professor of Art History and Cultural Studies at Queens University, Canada. A specialist in French and Scandinavian symbolist visual practice in the context of scientific epistemologies, and in the institutional collecting and exhibiting of the art of psychiatric patients circa 1900, she is the author of Natures Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017), which includes chapters on the work of August Strindberg and Edvard Munch. Her recent articles include Translating and Understanding: Gauguin and Strindberg in 1895 in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (2014), Lithographic and Biological Error in Edvard Munchs Women in the Hospital (1896), Print Quarterly (2014), and Defending Deformation: Maurice Deniss Positivist Modernism, Art History (2015). She is currently working on an exhibition on Edvard Munch and medicine, and a book project entitled Gambling and the Modern Imaginary.

Freddie Rokem is Professor Emeritus from the Department of Theatre at Tel Aviv University, Israel, where he held the Emanuel Herzikowitz Chair for Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Art. He is currently the Wiegeland Visiting Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago. His recent books include