
Mock Humanity!
Two Essays on James Ensor's Grotesques
Bart Verschaffel(Author)
BAI NV (Publisher)
Published on 30. January 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-90-76714-51-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book reveals that James Ensor did not develop his fantastic and grotesque universe of masks and skeletons out of his melancholic soul, but that he re-used and transformed an old image tradition that was collected and published by the French author and art critic Jules Champfleury in his History of Caricature. A second essay analyses how these weird creatures infiltrate the image borders and the frames of Ensor's paintings in order to disturb the 'normal' world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Schoten
Belgium
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 220 mm
ISBN-13
978-90-76714-51-6 (9789076714516)
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