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grotesque is more than a style, genre, or subject; it is a cultural phenomenon engag-ing the central concerns of the humanistic debate today. Hybrid, ambivalent, and changeful, the grotesque is a shaping force in the modern era. Frances S. Connelly is pr ofessor of art history at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.
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. Frances S. Connelly is professor of art history at the University of Missouri–Kansas ...
- Frances S Connelly
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. Frances S. Connelly is professor of art history at the University of Missouri–Kansas ...
- Mircea-Ioan Lupu
Oct 1, 2012 · It is subversive, rudely transgressing the boundaries between inside and out, above and below, elevated and profane. It has to do with the corporeal subterranea – the guts and the bowels, and the processes through which internal juices are ejected into the world. Little wonder that the grotesque is as popular today as it was in the fifteenth ...
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. Frances S. Connelly is professor of art history at the University of Missouri–Kansas ...
- Shun-liang Chao
Apr 27, 2024 · The modernist grotesque body acts as a framework for understanding how artists and authors respond to modernity, and more needs to be done in analysing how modernism and the grotesque persist today, including in meme culture and social media. Download chapter PDF. Death enacts, for Barnes, a frightening liberation from an oppressive order.
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Apr 27, 2024 · By tracing this tradition of the grotesque body back to medieval satire and gothic literature, we come to a better understanding of how modernists viewed their ‘modern’ moment: a time that is both the fin de siècle—the end of an era—and the beginning of a new, unknown epoch. This modern moment is itself a grotesque merging of past and future, producing a hybrid modernity where ...
