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Jan 18, 2019 · Courtesy of the artist. The contemporary grotesque is interested in underlining the way that bodies that are different from the (white, male) norm, or that, in deviating from impossible standards, are treated as aberrant or monstrous. Artists who touch the grotesque subvert and claim power in part by owning flesh and blood.
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 ...
- What Is The Grotesque?
- The Grotesque in History
- An Evolving Definition
- Further Reading
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Most of you will probably think of something disgusting or terrifying right off the bat. That is not necessarily the case but is rather just the more modern permutation that the term has undergone. That is not to say that theGrotesqueis not at times disgusting or frightening, but merely that it is not necessarily entirely either of those things. Th...
The term originally started visually in the 1500s. The word itself is derived from the Italian “grotto,” for caves, because it was at that point historically that a number of ancient cave paintings were discovered. The art in these paintings had no respect for the mimetic principles of art which were championed at the time; that is to say, these ca...
The Grotesque is by no means an easy literary form to define. Conceptions of the Grotesque have altered and grown over the years, making the definition, as with any sort of generic determinations, difficult to discern and even more difficult to find consensus on. This is just one overview, examining a few points on the Grotesque’s spectrum. There a...
Grotesque | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature Defining the grotesque in a concise and objective manner is notoriously difficult.
Robert Levinefrom Brookline, Massachusetts on December 02, 2015: Nice overview, & good examples. H. P. Lovecraft's early short story "Dagon" takes the grotesque back to its etymological root; the narrator sees cave paintings of the fish-monster before seeing the creature himself. I think another example, to go along w/your mention of the Theater of...
When the cavernous, once-extravagant building was excavated around 1480, the moulding friezes were dubbed grottesche or ‘from a cave’. Amelie von Wulffen, Untitled, 2012, watercolour and Indian ink on paper, 28 × 20 cm. Courtesy: the artist, Gió Marconi, Milan, and Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna; photograph: Roman März.
The source of the grotesque in art and literature is man’s capacity for finding a unique and powerful fascination in the monstrous. The psychic reasons for this proclivity are far from clear, but the proclivity itself has left its mark on a wide variety of cultures, from prehistory to the present, from the most primitive societies to the most sophisticated.
- Bernard Mc Elroy
- 1989
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.
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Whether travelling a short distance from Nero’s Domus Aurea to Raphael’s Vatican logge, or across the ocean from Italy to New Spain, this volume goes further than any previous study in defining the historic understanding of grotesque and, in so doing, providing us with a more nuanced resource for our understanding of an art form once viewed as peripheral.
