Parody and Festivity in Early Modern Art

Essays on Comedy as Social Vision
Herausgeber: Smith, David R

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Produktbeschreibung

Dwelling on the interconnections between parody and festivity as forms of inversion, the essays in this volume delve into the nature and the meanings of festive laughter as depicted in early modern art. Chapters deal most often with Northern Renaissance and Baroque art; themes include grobianism and the grotesque, scatology, popular proverbs with ironic twists, and a wide range of comic reversals, many hinging on ideas of the world upside down.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781409430308
• ISBN-10: 1409430308
• Artikelnr.: 44707818

Autorenporträt

David R. Smith is Professor of Art History at the University of New Hampshire, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Sociable laughter
deep laughter
David R. Smith; In praise of folly
Paul Barolsky; Drinking as gods
laughing as men: Velázquez and the gift of Bacchus
Aneta Georgievska-Shine; Hunter rabbits/hares in 15th- and 16th-century northern art: parody and carnival?
Diane Scillia; The early modern lottery in the Netherlands: charity as festival and parody
Jane Kromm; Truth in painting - comedic resolution in Breugel's Landscape with the Magpie on the Gallows
Catherine Levesque; Parody
proverb
and paradox in two late works by Pieter Breugel the Elder
David A. Levine; Exuberant gluttony: Breugel's overeaters
Yemi Onafuwa; Bakhtinian carnivalesque in the clown images of Rouault
Soo Y. Kang; Parodies of life: Baccio del Bianco's comic drawings of dwarfs
Sandra Cheng; Jan van der Heyden's Feast of Purim
David R. Smith; Le Cedille qui Sourit: aesthetic research under the 'sign of humor'
Rosemary O'Neill; General bibliography; Index.