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Carnivalesque by Roger Malbert and Timothy Hyman (2000, Book, Other)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of California Press

ISBN-101853322091

ISBN-139781853322099

eBay Product ID (ePID)1749157

Product Key Features

Book TitleCarnivalesque

Number of Pages107 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2000

TopicMuseum Studies

IllustratorYes

GenreArt

AuthorRoger Malbert, Timothy Hyman

FormatBook, Other

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length8.6 in

Item Width8.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal704.97911

SynopsisCarnivalesque explores the history of humor and the grotesque imagination in Western art from the Middle Ages to the present day. It is structured around four themes: the Tumultuous Crowd, the World Turned Upside-down, the Comic Mask, and the Grotesque Body. Illustrations range from medieval woodcuts and misericords to drawings, paintings, and prints by Brueghel, Jacques Callot, the Tiepolos, James Gillray, and Francisco Goya. Popular imagery from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is set alongside satirical prints by Daumier, James Ensor, and Max Beckmann. Recent and contemporary works include sculpture by Louise Bourgeois and Paul McCarthy, paintings by Paula Rego and Red Grooms, and video installations by Marisa Carnesky and Leigh Bowery. The book includes approximately seventy illustrations, with essays by co-curators Timothy Hyman and Roger Malbert., Medieval fools hatched from eggs, pigs roasting butchers on spits, battles between pots and pans, a transvestite performance artist and a tattooed lady: these are a few examples of the startling and provocative images in this exploration of 'the carnival sense of the world' in Western art from the Middle Ages to the present day. The inspiration for this account is drawn from the early twentieth-century Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin who in Rabelais and his World invoked the transforming power of 'festive laughter ... that peculiar folk humour that has always existed and has hever merged with the official culture of the ruling classes'.