Grotesque Visions

Thomas O. Haakenson is Associate Professor in Critical Studies and Visual Studies at California College of the Arts in San Francisco and Oakland, USA. He is coeditor of the book series Visual Cultures and German Contexts and has been published widely, including in New German Critique, Cabinet, Rutgers Art Review, German Studies Review, and the anthologies Legacies of Modernism, Spectacle, Representations of German Identity, as well as Memorialization in Germany Since 1945. He has received awards and fellowships from the United States Fulbright Program, the Social Science Research Council, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, and the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies.

Acknowledgements
Note on Style and Sources
List of Figures
1. The Return of the Grotesque
2. The Science of Berlin Dada: Salomo Friedländer, Walter Benjamin, and the Grotesque
3. The Architectonics of Public Science: “Learning to See” in Rudolf Virchow’s Museum of Pathology
4. Sexuality ad oculos: Sigmund Freud and Magnus Hirschfeld Meet Til Brugman’s “Celluloid Children”
5. The Optics of Evidence: Photography and Vision in Berlin Anthropology
6. Visual Objectivity Meets Impossible Object: Hannah Höch “From an Ethnographic Museum” Photomontages
7. Learning to See Grotesquely
Coda: Toward a Critique of the Dogma of Visuality
Bibliography
Index