Frances S. Connelly

The Grotesque in Western Art and Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book establishes a fresh and expansive view of the grotesque in Western art and culture, from 1500 to the present day. By taking a historical perspective, the book reveals the grotesque to be a complex and continuous tradition comprising several distinct strands: the ornamental, carnivalesque, traumatic and profound.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 391g
• ISBN-13: 9781107629967
• ISBN-10: 1107629969
• Artikelnr.: 40910389

Autorenporträt

Frances S. Connelly is Professor of Art History at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. She is the author of The Sleep of Reason: Primitivism in Modern European Art and Aesthetics and the editor of Modern Art and the Grotesque, and has published numerous articles and book chapters on topics pertaining to the intersection of art and anthropology.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: entering the Spielraum
2. Improvisation I: grottesche
3. Improvisation II: arabesques
4. Subversion: the carnivalesque body
5. Trauma: the failure of representation
6. Revelation: profound play.