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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: grotesque in Western art and culture
    sub title: the image at play
  name:
    name part: Connelly, Frances S.
    name part: 1953-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 190 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
  abstract: 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 comprised of several distinct strands, such as 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 boundaries that compromises and contradicts accepted realities. Connelly demonstrates that the grotesque is more than a style, genre, or subject. It is a cultural phenomenon engaging the central concerns of the humanistic debate today. Hybrid, ambivalent and changeful, the grotesque is a shaping force in the modern era.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction: entering the Spielraum -- 2. Improvisation I: grottesche -- 3. Improvisation II: arabesques -- 4. Subversion: the carnivalesque body -- 5. Trauma: the failure of representation -- 6. Revelation: profound play.
  note: Frances S. Connelly, University of Missouri--Kansas City.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Grotesque
  subject:
    topic: Grotesque in art
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / General
  classification: BH301.G74 .C66 2012
  classification: 700/.415
  identifier: 9781107011250 (hardback)
  identifier: 1107011256 (hardback)
  identifier: 2011047470
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 111115
    record change date: 20150922114120.0
    record identifier: in00002767732