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Created to complement Professor of German Peter J. Burgard’s core course, Literature and Arts C-65, “Repression and Expression: Literature and Art in Fin-de-Siècle Germany and Austria,” the exposition masterfully interweaves visual art and texts read in the course...
Another subtle but intriguing text-cum-visual art trick is the parallel placement of Klimt’s “Pear Tree” and a decorated, meter-long text box featuring another Hofmannsthal quote designed to emphasize the importance of images and words and how they interact with each other...
...studied in the course, is featured in several places in the exhibition. One Hofmannsthal quote, part of which lamentingly asks, “[W]hy seek again for words which I have foresworn!,” runs along the perimeter of the room above the works of visual art, elevated about eight-and-a-half feet off of the ground...
Then there are the visual art works themselves. The works by Klimt, almost certainly the most familiar pieces, are placed near the entrance. Among these, the “Jursiprudence” photo mural may be the most inventive and unusual...
...Visual Arts...