Parody and festivity in early modern art : essays on comedy as social vision
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Parody and festivity in early modern art : essays on comedy as social vision
Ashgate, c2012
- : hbk
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Bibliography: p. [179]-202
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Dwelling on the rich interconnections between parody and festivity in humanist thought and popular culture alike, the essays in this volume delve into the nature and the meanings of festive laughter as it was conceived of in early modern art. The concept of 'carnival' supplies the main thread connecting these essays. Bound as festivity often is to popular culture, not all the topics fit the canons of high art, and some of the art is distinctly low-brow and occasionally ephemeral; themes include grobianism and the grotesque, scatology, popular proverbs with ironic twists, and a wide range of comic reversals, some quite profound. Many hinge on ideas of the world upside down. Though the chapters most often deal with Northern Renaissance and Baroque art, they spill over into other countries, times, and cultures, while maintaining the carnivalesque air suggested by the book's title.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Sociable laughter, deep laughter, David R. Smith
- In praise of folly, Paul Barolsky
- Drinking as gods, laughing as men: VelA!zquez and the gift of Bacchus, Aneta Georgievska-Shine
- Hunter rabbits/hares in 15th- and 16th-century northern art: parody and carnival?, Diane Scillia
- The early modern lottery in the Netherlands: charity as festival and parody, Jane Kromm
- Truth in painting - comedic resolution in Breugel's Landscape with the Magpie on the Gallows, Catherine Levesque
- Parody, proverb, and paradox in two late works by Pieter Breugel the Elder, David A. Levine
- Exuberant gluttony: Breugel's overeaters, Yemi Onafuwa
- Bakhtinian carnivalesque in the clown images of Rouault, Soo Y. Kang
- Parodies of life: Baccio del Bianco's comic drawings of dwarfs, Sandra Cheng
- Jan van der Heyden's Feast of Purim, David R. Smith
- Le Cedille qui Sourit: aesthetic research under the 'sign of humor', Rosemary O'Neill
- General bibliography
- Index.
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