Grotesque in Western Art and Culture - The Image At Play

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Connelly establishes a fresh and expansive view of the grotesque in Western art and culture, from 1500 to the present. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Frances S Connelly, Frances S. Connelly, Frances S. (University of Missouri Connelly, CONNELLY FRANCES S, Connelly Frances S.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2012
• EAN: 9781107011250
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01125-0
• No. of pages: 199
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; History, HISTORY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, ART / History / General, History of Art, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Literary studies: general, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Art styles not defined by date