Read more
List of contents
List of figures; Contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction Frances S. Connelly; 2. The archaeology of the modern grotesque David Summers; 3. Van Gogh's ear: toward a theory of disgust Michel Chaouli; 4. Conceiving Barbara Maria Stafford; 5. Blemished physiologies: Delacroix, Paganini and the cholera epidemic of 1832 Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer; 6. Ingres and the poetics of the grotesque Heather McPherson; 7. The Stones of Venice: John Ruskin's grotesque history of art Frances S. Connelly; 8. Eden's other: Gauguin and the ethnographic grotesque Elizabeth C. Childs; 9. Grotesque bodies: Weimar-era medicine and the photomontages of Hannah Höch Maria Makela; 10. Convulsive bodies: the grotesque anatomies of surrealist photography Kirsten A. Hoving; 11. Willem de Kooning's Women: the body of the grotesque Leesa Fanning; 12. Double-take: Sigmar Polke and the tradition of the grotesque-comic Pamela Kort; 13. Redefinitions of abjection in contemporary performances of the female body Christine Ross; 14. The grotesque today: preliminary notes towards a taxonomy Noël Carroll; Index.
Summary
Examines how the grotesque has shaped the history, practice, and theory of art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Examining images by a range of artists, such as Gauguin, Höch, and de Kooning, the essays also encompass a variety of media, including medical illustration, paintings, prints, photography, and multimedia installations.
