Christophe Kone
Uncanny Creatures: Doll Thinking in Modern German Culture
Uncanny Creatures: Doll Thinking in Modern German Culture
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Germany had a monopoly on bisque toy doll manufacture and export in Europe before WWI, and Christophe Koné explores how this cultural affinity for dolls has been a major source of inspiration for German-speaking doll makers. He examines how E.T.A. Hoffmann's romantic tale "The Sandman" (1815) has been a major source of inspiration for German-speaking doll makers due to its focus on imagination and inventiveness. Koné shows how this interest in human-like figures continues a long tradition of thought devoted to conceptualizing "things" and proposes a new reading of doll artifacts in German culture centered on their ability to evoke a feeling of uncertainty and unsettlement in the viewer.
Format: Hardback
Length: 184 pages
Publication date: 31 July 2024
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
Germany held a monopoly on the manufacture and export of bisque toy dolls in Europe before WWI, but their omnipresence in the material, visual, and literary culture of the modern German-speaking world has not been properly addressed. Christophe Koné draws upon a range of stories and seminal essays on dolls, toys, sculptures, paintings, and photographs to examine how E.T.A. Hoffmann's romantic tale "The Sandman" (1815) has been a major source of inspiration for German-speaking doll makers. He shows how it initiated a genealogy of doll thinkers (Freud & Jentsch), writers (Rilke), painters (Kokoschka), photographers (Bellmer), and makers (Pritzel). Uncanny Creatures then explores how this unusual interest in human-like figures continues a long tradition of thought devoted to conceptualizing "things," from Immanuel Kant's theory of the thing-in-itself to Martin Heidegger's lecture on the thing, and Eduard MÖrike or Rainer Maria Rilke's thing-poems. Because dolls occupy a liminal space—not quite things and more than mere objects—they appear as uncanny creatures which have held a fascination for writers, thinkers, and artists alike. Uncanny Creatures moves past the Freudian discourse of fetishism to propose a new reading of doll artifacts in German culture centered on their ability to evoke a feeling of uncertainty and unsettlement in the viewer.
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780472133291
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