Download or read book Paradigms of Renaissance Grotesques written by Damiano Acciarino and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection offers a set of new readings on the history, meanings, and cultural innovations of the grotesque as defined by various current critical theories and practices. Since the grotesque frequently manifests itself as striking incongruities, ingenious hybrids, and creative deformities of nature and culture, it is profoundly implicated in early modern debates on the theological, philosophical, and ethical role of images. This consideration serves as the central focus from which the articles in the collection then move outward along different lines of conceptualization, chronology, cultural relevance, place, and site. They cover a wide spectrum of artistic media, from prints to drawings, from sculptures to gardens, from paintings to stuccos. As they do this, they engage with, and bring together, theoretical perspectives from writers as diverse as Plato and Paleotti, Vitruvius and Vasari, Molanus to Montaigne. Whether travelling a short distance from Nero's Domus Aurea to Raphael's Vatican logge, or across the ocean from Italy to New Spain, this volume goes further than any previous study in defining the historic understanding of grotesque and, in so doing, providing us with a more nuanced resource for our understanding of an art form once viewed as peripheral."--

Download or read book The Grotesque in Art and Literature written by James Luther Adams and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors focus on the religious and theological significance of grotesque imagery in art and literature, exploring the religious meaning of the grotesque and its importance as a subject for theological inquiry.

Download or read book The Grotesque in Art and Literature written by Wolfgang Kayser and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Grotesque in the English Renaissance written by Barbara Ann Hill and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The grotesque written by Frances K. Barasch and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "The grotesque".

Download or read book The Concept of the Grotesque from the Reneissance to the Twentieth Century A Critical Study written by Kébir Sandy and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Literature - General, , language: English, abstract: A good understanding of the grotesque necessitates not only an account of the historical development of the word “grotesque” and its usage, but also the various concepts with which it has often been associated, and the different theories and opinions expressed about it. We begin, first of all, by giving a brief examination of the history of the term, its origin, derivation, and semantic evolution. It is widely agreed that the word “grotesque originated to describe the murals which were discovered, in the course of excavation, beneath the baths of Titus in Rome at the end of the 15th century”. These paintings present a style of art which was completely unknown at the time. It is mainly characterized by its heterogeneous nature; it combines many different and ambivalent elements: human, animal, and vegetable. In English the word “grotesque” was introduced around 1640 to replace other previous forms, which came either from the Italian, like grotesco or crotesco, or the French like, crotesque. In fact, according to the O.E.D. the French form was the first to be recorded in the language. In French, crotesque occurred in 1532 and continued to prevail until the end of the 17th century. As early as the 16th century, the word “grotesque extended in French to non artistic things and literature. In his Essai, Montaigne wrote: “Que sont ce icy aussi (Les Essais) a la vérité que crotesques et corps monstrueux”. And Rabelais used it to refer to parts of the body in "Gargantua et Pantagruel" (1535), (“Couillon crotesque”). From the late 17th century, the word as an adjective knew a large usage. But in both England and Germany, it remained restricted to its early original usage until the 18th century when it got a wide application. It was associated with caricature which provoked too much emphasis on the ridiculous and a neglect of the terrible and terrifying side of the grotesque.

Download or read book On the Grotesque written by Geoffrey Galt Harpham and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Early Modern Grotesque written by Liam Semler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Early Modern Grotesque: English Sources and Documents 1500-1700 offers readers a large and fully annotated collection of primary source texts addressing the grotesque in the English Renaissance. The sources are arranged chronologically in 120 numbered items with accompanying explanatory Notes. Each Note provides clarification of difficult terms in the source text, locating it in the context of early modern English and Continental discourses on the grotesque. The Notes also direct readers to further English sources and relevant modern scholarship. This volume includes a detailed introduction surveying the vocabulary, form and meaning of the grotesque from its arrival as a word, concept and aesthetic in 16th century England to its early maturity in the 18th century. The Introduction, Items and Notes, complemented by illustrations and a comprehensive bibliography, provide an unprecedented view of the evolving complexity and diversity of the early modern English grotesque. While giving due credit to Wolfgang Kayser and Mikhail Bakhtin as masters of grotesque theory, this ground-breaking book aims to provoke new, evidence-based approaches to understanding the specifically English grotesque. The textual archive from 1500-1700 is a rich and intriguing record that offers much to interested readers and researchers in the fields of literary studies, theatre studies and art history.

Download or read book The Art of Transformation Grotesques in Sixteenth Century Italy written by Maria Fabricius Hansen and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Portrait of Eccentricity Arcimboldo and the Mannerist Grotesque written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Birth of the Grotesque written by Scott Weiss and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation argues for shared dynamics within visual and literary culture in the Neronian period. By analyzing literary texts and Fourth Style wall paintings, my project reveals overlapping aesthetics in different media through an exploration of three essential themes: (1) the conflation of fantasy and reality, (2) the prevalence of hybrid forms, and (3) a style that accentuates ornament. In these areas, diverse cultural artifacts emerge as participants in a collective mode of display. As a hermeneutic framework for making these connections, I employ theories of the grotesque, a concept rooted in the Renaissance reception of Nero's Domus Aurea. Around 1480, antiquarians uncovered the subterranean ruins of the structure, and in these "grottoes" they marveled at wall paintings they named grottesche. Artists such as Pinturicchio and Raphael emulated these ancient forms to create a new artistic style, which over the centuries became broadly associated with the strange and fantastic as it developed into what we now call the grotesque. In my work, I define the grotesque as a mode of representation that disrupts normative ways of comprehending the world. It challenges preconceived notions about the stability of natural forms and provides alternative strategies for representing reality. By considering the grotesque, I help explain the Neronian predilection for fanciful and sometimes repulsive imagery as a desire to challenge expectations and to expand aesthetic limits.

Download or read book The Grotesque an American Genre written by William Van O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Satire and Medicine in Renaissance Florence written by Katherine Roosevelt Reeve Losee and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonardo da Vinci's so-called Grotesque drawings have resisted interpretation. Drawn as marginalia, full sheet sketches, and small doodles, comically distorted representations of both men and women make up this small canon, some more exaggerated than others. This thesis examines the relationships between the drawings, Florentine literary satire, and medical discourses in an effort to establish a productive lens for contextualizing these images. A literature review examines the current scholarship on the drawings and what needs to be further addressed. The similarities between the anti-academic, satirical poetry and literature of the Florentine Renaissance and the tropes seen in the Grotesque drawings comprise chapter two. An overview of relevant medical discourses, in particular those treating depictions of old age and the elderly is presented in chapter three.

Download or read book The Grotesque and the Unnatural written by Markku Salmela and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grotesque has provided both laymen and scholars with extreme delights for centuries: from the ornamental combining of rare motifs in antiquity to a hybridisation of structural genres in recent times; from fantastical fusions of humans and beasts to comic exaggerations of bodily aberrations and prosthetic postmodern visions. Eluding clear classification at all times, the notion has often been identified with ideas of contradiction and conflation and observed in relation to principles and categories such as estrangement (Wolfgang Kayser) and carnival (Mikhail Bakhtin), the sublime (Victor Hugo) and Victorian Gothic imagination (John Ruskin). In this context, the present volume appears as a synthesis and radical questioning of existing historical developments. The book contributes to current discussions on the grotesque in contemporary literary and cultural theory from the perspective of one specific motif: the unnatural. Quite like the grotesque, observing the unnatural (and unnaturalness) reveals a resilient strain in critical thought, and the significance of this history gradually unfolds as the volume charts the progress of its main themes from the Renaissance to the present day. While in much current talk about theory and criticism certain related notions are still posited for and against each other--what is seen as normal or natural and what is not, and what should be seen as normal or natural and what should not--the discussions in The Grotesque and the Unnatural go a long way toward founding a new vista from which to observe this beguiling opposition. The book presents a new perspective on the grotesque by considering it as a phenomenon which comes into being only through a negation of sorts, yet refusing to place it in a simple, normative pattern as nature's antithesis or expressive gesture. As the articles demonstrate, the grotesque is always in the process of subverting or surpassing something, always not being ideal or sufficient to either nature or a social rule, and this very negation affects its status as a tool of transformation or emancipation from norm: the grotesque figure does not represent any particular stage of development or natural state of being. As such, the grotesque hints at and hinges on something that exceeds habitual spheres of culture and communication but, as the book aims to show, this elusiveness of meaning gives no cause for analytic despair. By tracing the involutions of the grotesque with the unnatural in specific literary cases, the book evokes centuries of Western cultural history and ultimately focuses on two questions: How and why does the grotesque tend to negate nature, and how does it affect our understanding of what we see? The diverse materials and historical scope of The Grotesque and the Unnatural make the book, in its exceptional thematic unity, a valuable addition to the fields of literary and cultural studies.

Download or read book Grotesque written by Justin D. Edwards and published by New Critical Idiom. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grotesque provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the grotesque on cultural forms throughout history, with particular focus on its representation in literature, visual art and film. The book: presents a history of the literary grotesque from Classical writing to the present examines theoretical debates around the term in their historical and cultural contexts introduce readers to key writers and artists of the grotesque, from Homer to Rabelais, Shakespeare, Carson McCullers and David Cronenberg analyses key terms such as disharmony, deformed and distorted bodies, misfits and freaks explores the grotesque in relation to queer theory, post-colonialism and the carnivalesque. Grotesque presents readers with an original and distinctive overview of this vital genre and is an essential guide for students of literature, art history and film studies.

Download or read book Rethinking the Concept of the Grotesque written by Shun-Liang Chao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are we to define what is grotesque, in art or literature? Since the Renaissance the term has been used for anything from the fantastic to the monstrous, and been associated with many artistic genres, from the Gothic to the danse macabre. Shun-Liang Chao's new study adopts a rigorous approach by establishing contradictory physicality and the notion of metaphor as two keys to the construction of a clear identity of the grotesque. With this approach, Chao explores the imagery of Richard Crashaw, Charles Baudelaire, and René Magritte as individual exemplars of the grotesque in the Baroque, Romantic, and Surrealist ages, in order to suggest a lineage of this curious aesthetic and to cast light on the functions of the visual and of the verbal in evoking it. Book jacket.

Download or read book Embracing the Grotesque written by Galina Shevchenko and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embracing the Grotesque is an art historical and critical journey culminating with poetic digressions into my personal art practice. Combining art history and feminist theory, this project plumbs the depths of the aesthetic and conceptual aspects of the "Grotesque": an extremely captivating but incongruent cultural phenomenon and critical idiom. The story of Grotesque is a winding road taking us back to the origins of creation and creativity, a sacred place of intersection between visual culture and the depths of the subconscious. Aesthetics of Grotesque is based on The Renaissance's visualization and recontextualization of the "pagan dream." Visual explorations of the Grotesque could be regarded as conceptual precursors to Freudian excavations in psychoanalysis. Embracing the Grotesque intersects art historical discourse on the Grotesque explored by Alessandra Zamperini, Nicole Dacos, Ewa Kuryluk, and Frances Connely with theoretical and literary discourse of Mikhail Bakhtin and Geoffrey Galt Harpham. It also owes a debt to the feminist theories of Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous, Elizabeth Grosz, and Rosi Braidotti. Throughout my investigation I am attempting to identify mythological tropes, methodological traits, and unveil the means of "grotesque" knowledge production through images and metaphors. This process of inquiry through interjecting analysis of art and language is helping me with identification and verbalization of my own creative process, which is equally indebted to the phenomenon of Grotesque. In the final part of the paper, I attempt to translate into language my own version of the Grotesque: the essence of intuitive, introspective femininity that permeates my work. Voice what invisibly drives my practice. Reveal my Grotesque methodology and validate my mothering discourse of desire and madness. The work will culminate with visual documentation of my recent exhibitions and studio experiments.