Format:
597 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780772721952
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0772721955
Series Statement:
Publications of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance studies 43
Content:
"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."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0772721939
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780772721938
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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Art History
Keywords:
Renaissance
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Groteske
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Groteske
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Ästhetik
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Geschichte 1420-1600
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Aufsatzsammlung
