Circumstances like these could have been the motivation for artists to look for new aesthetic elements. Contemporary artistic attitudes are different from past ones presently, individualism and openness seem to be the main characteristics of art. Why does this genre keep returning over time? Is the perception of the grotesque same for all of us? Does liking or disliking the grotesque have an anthropological or psychological explanation? Thus, this study examines the aspects of today's artistic production through the lenses of the grotesque. The vast production of grotesque art in its diverse forms however, was not observed to answer some of the vital questions that arise when we think of the grotesque as a genre. The study of the grotesque has mostly been developed around literary works and its techniques and images. The study analyzes the evolution of the grotesque and reveals different levels of grotesque imagery and its possible meanings in the works of three authors: Machado de Assis, Camilo Jose Cela, and Alejandra Pizarnik. This work examines the presence of the grotesque in fiction, plastic arts, and films, to interpret the postmodern artistic phenomenon. " argument is convincing and lends a new voice to an area of study that is often limited in its focus of specific art forms or time periods." Khamla Dhouti Martinez ".shows how the extravagances and distortions of the Grotesque are hospitable either to agendas of social reformism or to the quite different spirit of postmodernist relativism with its rejection of determinate meanings and values." - David A. Myung Choi, Employing the Grotesque As a Communication Strategy - The History of an Artistic Style, Edwin Mellen Pr, 2009 Original essays and excerpts from published critical analyses that discuss the literary theme of the grotesque considering authors as varied as Aristophanes, Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe, and Flannery O'Connor. Some essays have been written specifically for the series others are excerpts of important critical analyses from selected books and journals. This new volume contains twenty essays that explore the role of the grotesque in such works as Candide, Frankenstein, King Lear, The Metamorphosis, and many others. The grotesque, often defined as something fantastically distorted that attracts and repels, is a concept that has various meanings in literature. Harlod Bloom, The Grotesque, Infobase, 2009. Meyer, Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1997 Terri’s Post Dublin 2019 Report: Technical Failures and Networking SuccessesĪriela's Post-Dublin 2019 Report: Mixed to PositiveĪsking Permission vs.Geoffrey Galt Harpham, On the Grotesque - Strategies of Contradiction in Art and Literature, 1982ĭominique Iehl, Le Grotesque, Presses Universitaires de France, Collection Que sais-je?, 1997 The Very Official Dead Dog Art Zine’s 2019 Hugo Eligibility Post: Best Related WorkĪriela's 2019 Hugo Eligibility Post: Best Fan ArtistĪnnouncing the Launch of The Very Official Dead Dog Art Zine Terri’s 2019 Hugo Eligibility Post: Best Fan Writer Lots of that.Ģ021 Hugo Eligibility Post: Best Fan Artist Be forewarned, the following is not particularly safe for work.įor example, I knew that poking people in the butt was a thing. I did not realize exactly how widespread it was, particularly outside of obscaena. Everything I am about to recount is probably old hat to someone who knows their stuff. I knew some of them going in, but I was totally not prepared for what I found. To put it mildly, there are a lot of tropes of illuminations. Tropes of Medieval Illuminations: Let Me Show You Them I'm passingly familiar with Medieval illumination, but this was a whole new level. Randall's Images In The Margins Of The Gothic Manuscripts, all 739 of them (they were numbered). In particular, I went through all the image plates in Lilian M.C. To get a more thorough and instinctive feel for the aesthetic, I spent an afternoon at the Harold Washington Library branch of the Chicago Public Library looking at non-circulating books. I'm working on a project based on Medieval and Renaissance manuscript illuminations right now.
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