August Strindberg and Visual Culture

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.

• Foreword: An Extraordinary Transdisciplinary ArtistDaniel Birnbaum, The Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden1. Introduction: Visual Culture, August Strindberg, and The Double Image of ModernityEszter Szalczer, Anna Westerstahl Stenport, and Jonathan Schroeder2. Hands, Dissection, and Embodied Seeing: Strindberg and MunchAllison Morehead, Queen’s University, Canada3. May the Force Be With You”: Strindberg's PaintingsArnold Weinstein, Brown University, USA4. Strindberg the Environmentalist? Blood-stained Landscapes and the French Tradition of Nature PaintingEszter Szalczer, University at Albany, SUNY, USA5. Ghosts of the Brain Made Real: Anti-theatricality, Visuality, and Disembodiment Across Strindberg’s Late Chamber MediaAmy Holzapfel, Williams College, USA6. Méliès’s Dream Film and Strindberg’s Dream Play: Compressing Time and SpaceScott MacKenzie, Queen’s University, Canada, and Anna Westerståhl Stenport, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA7. Strindberg and the Images of the Stage: A Dramaturg’s PerspectiveMagnus Florin, The Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden8. Staging Strindberg’s A Dream Play: A Visual EssayRobert Wilson, Artist and Director9. Robert Wilson’s Photographic Elements of A Dream PlayJonathan Schroeder, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA10. Dream-Playing the Archive: Exploring the 1915-18 Düsseldorf production of A Dream PlayAstrid von Rosen, University of Gothenburg, Sweden11. Anticipations of the Digital: Dispersing StrindbergBerndt Clavier, Malmö University, Sweden, and Timothy Engström, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA12. Picturing Miss Julie: Gender and Visuality in Performance PracticeKristina Hagström-Ståhl, Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Art, Sweden13. Strindberg’s Self-Portraits in ContextLisa Hostetler, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York, USA14. My Strindberg SelfiesPierre Guillet de Monthoux, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark15. Scenography, Photography, Cinematography: Strindberg and the Technologies of Visual RepresentationFreddie Rokem, Tel Aviv University, Israel16. Liv Ullmann’s Miss Julie: An Interview with ReflectionsLiv Ullmann, Director and Actress