Author: Thomas WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caricature
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art
Author: Thomas WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caricature
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art. With Illustr. by F. W. Fairholt
Author: Thomas WrightA History of Caricature & Grotesque in Literature and Art
Author: Thomas WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caricature
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The Grotesque in Art and Literature
Author: James Luther AdamsPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802842671
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
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.
Foul Perfection
Author: Mike KelleyPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262611787
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Critical writings and commentary by the Los Angeles based artist Mike Kelley. The work of artist Mike Kelley (b. 1954) embraces performance, installation, drawing, painting, video, and sculpture. Drawing distinctively on high art and vernacular traditions, including historical research, popular culture, and psychology, Kelley came to prominence in the 1980s with a series of sculptures composed of craft materials. His recent work offers dialogues with architecture and with repressed memory syndrome, and a sustained inquiry into his own aesthetic and social history. The subjects on which Kelley has written are as varied as his artistic media. They include the work of fellow artists, sound, caricature, the uncanny, UFOlogy, and gender-bending. This book offers a diverse collection of Kelley's writings from the last twenty-five years. It contains major critical texts on art, film, and the wider culture, including his piece on the aesthetic he calls "urban Gothic." It also contains essays, mostly commissioned for exhibition catalogs and journals, on the artists and groups David Askevold, Öyvind Fahlström, Douglas Huebler, John Miller, Survival Research Laboratories, and Paul Thek, among others. Kelley's voices are passionate, analytic, and ironic, and his critical intelligence is leavened with touches of whimsy.
Baudelaire and Caricature: From the Comic to an Art of Modernity
Author: Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271042879
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Baudelaire's essays on caricature offered the first sustained defense of the value of caricature as a serious art, worthy of study in its own right. This book argues for the crucial importance of the essays for his conception of modernity, so fundamental to the subsequent history of modernism. From the theory of the comic formulated in De l'essence du rire to his discussions of Daumier, Goya, Hogarth, Cruikshank, Bruegel, Grandville, Gavarni, Charlet, and many others, Baudelaire develops not only an aesthetic of caricature but also a caricatural aesthetic--dual and contradictory, grotesque, ironic, violent, farcical, fantastic, and fleeting--that defines an art of modern life. In particular, Baudelaire's insistence on the dualism and ambiguity of laughter has radical implications for such emblems of modernity as the city and the flâneur who roams the streets. The modern city is the space of the comic, a kind of caricature, presenting the flâneur with an image of dualism, one's position as subject and object, implicated in the same urban experiences one seems to control. The theory of the comic invests the idea of modernity with reciprocity, one's status as laughter and object of laughter, thus preventing the subjective construction and appropriation of the world that has so often been linked with the project of modernism. Comic art reflects what Walter Benjamin later defined as Baudelairean allegory, at once representing and revealing the alienation of modern experience. But Baudelaire also transforms the dualism of the comic into a peculiarly modern unity-- the doubling of the comic artist enacted for the benefit of the audience, the self-generating and self-reflexive experience of the flâneur in a "communion" with the crowd. This study examines his views in the context of the history of comic theory and contemporary accounts of the individual artists. Complete with illustrations of the many works discussed, it illuminates the history and theory of caricature, the comic, and the grotesque, and adds to our understanding of modernism in literature and the visual arts.
Bulletin of the University of Texas
Author: The Living Age
Author: Littell's Living Age
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
Author: Thomas WrightPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
In 'The Life of Sir Richard Burton' by Thomas Wright, readers are invited into the fascinating world of one of the most complex and intriguing figures of the 19th century. Wright presents a detailed account of Burton's life, focusing on his pioneering travels, controversial beliefs, and literary achievements. The book's narrative style is engaging and informative, offering a mix of biography, travelogue, and cultural analysis that sheds light on Burton's contributions to exploration and ethnography. Wright's meticulous research and insightful commentary make this biography an essential read for anyone interested in Victorian literature and the history of travel writing. Thomas Wright, a respected biographer and historian, brings a nuanced understanding of Burton's life and legacy to this work. His expertise in the Victorian era and literary figures such as Burton shines through in the rich and detailed account he provides. I highly recommend 'The Life of Sir Richard Burton' to readers who enjoy biographies, travel literature, and 19th-century history. Wright's masterful storytelling and thorough exploration of Burton's life make this book a valuable addition to any library.