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The Grotesque in Western Art and Culture: The Image at Play
Frances S. Connelly
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Description for The Grotesque in Western Art and Culture: The Image at Play
hardcover. Connelly establishes a fresh and expansive view of the grotesque in Western art and culture, from 1500 to the present. Num Pages: 199 pages, 62 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 3J; AC; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 185 x 259 x 16. Weight in Grams: 596. The Image at Play. 199 pages, 62 b/w illus. Connelly establishes a fresh and expansive view of the grotesque in Western art and culture, from 1500 to the present. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 3J; AC; DSB. Dimension: 185 x 259 x 16. Weight: 596.
This book establishes a fresh and expansive view of the grotesque in Western art and culture, from 1500 to the present day. Following the non-linear evolution of the grotesque, Frances S. Connelly analyzes key works, situating them within their immediate social and cultural contexts, as well as their place in the historical tradition. By taking a long historical view, the book reveals the grotesque to be a complex and continuous tradition comprising several distinct strands: the ornamental, the carnivalesque and caricatural, the traumatic and the profound. The book articulates a model for understanding the grotesque as a rupture of cultural ... Read more
This book establishes a fresh and expansive view of the grotesque in Western art and culture, from 1500 to the present day. Following the non-linear evolution of the grotesque, Frances S. Connelly analyzes key works, situating them within their immediate social and cultural contexts, as well as their place in the historical tradition. By taking a long historical view, the book reveals the grotesque to be a complex and continuous tradition comprising several distinct strands: the ornamental, the carnivalesque and caricatural, the traumatic and the profound. The book articulates a model for understanding the grotesque as a rupture of cultural ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
199
Condition
New
Number of Pages
199
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107011250
SKU
V9781107011250
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About Frances S. Connelly
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.
Reviews for The Grotesque in Western Art and Culture: The Image at Play
"This short book on the grotesque offers an interesting contribution to the thematic reconfiguration of more conventional art history."
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