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and metamorphosis. Beyond the current understanding of the grotesque as an aesthetic category, he demonstrated how the grotesque functions as a fundamental existential experience. Moreover, Astruc identifies the grotesque as a crucial, and potentially universal, anthropological device that societies
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but had not guessed till then that in their private houses the Romans had often disregarded those rules and had adopted instead a more fanciful and informal style that was all lightness, elegance and grace." In these grotesque decorations a tablet or candelabrum might provide a focus; frames were
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also provides a formal introduction to classical values and to the dangers of grotesque or mixed form. Indeed, the departure from classical models of order, reason, harmony, balance and form opens up the risk of entry into grotesque worlds. Accordingly, British literature abounds with native
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has argued that "The sight of horrendously shattered bodies of veterans returned to the home front became commonplace. The accompanying growth in the prosthetic industry struck contemporaries as creating a race of half-mechanical men and became an important theme in
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extended into scrolls that formed part of the surrounding designs as a kind of scaffold, as Peter Ward-Jackson noted. Light scrolling grotesques could be ordered by confining them within the framing of a pilaster to give them more structure.
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has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as
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of branches of myrtle and doorways of reeds and other things, all seeming impossible and contrary to reason, yet it may be really great work if it is performed by a skillful artist."
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often have grotesque components in terms of character, style and location. In other cases, the environment described may be grotesque – whether urban (
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combined images of beauty with shocking brutality and violence in order to produce a sense of the grotesque clash of opposites. In a similar fashion,
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period, when designs often became as densely packed as in 16th-century engravings, and the elegance and fancy of the style tended to be lost.
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provides a variety of approaches to grotesque representation. Corporeal hybridity is an essential marker in Swift. In poetry, the works of
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displays a poetic and realistic sense of the grotesque horror of war and the human cost of brutal conflict. Poems such as
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Sanzaro, Francis. The Infantile Grotesque: Pathology, Sexuality, and a Theory of Religion. Davies Group Publishers, 2016.
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school of Italian dramatists, writing in the 1910s and 1920s, who are often seen as precursors of the
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The Grotesque: Bloom's Literary Themes edited by Harold Bloom and Blake Hobby
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1595:Popular grotesque typefaces include
545:, and (about 1545) painted for Duke
1568:Grotesque (typeface classification)
1538:Grotesques are often confused with
1443:, in the context of postmodernism;
967:Eclectic – grotesques panel in the
850:Duc d'AngoulĂŞme's porcelain factory
801:– the Boudoir of Marie-Antoinette,
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2003:Yves Saint Laurent & Art
1965:. USA: New York: Zone Books.
1671:, an opera by Giuseppe Verdi
1531:, because he died at age 56.
742:Baroque – grotesques on the
526:with a righteous vengeance.
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2425:, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2007.
2298:10.1007/978-3-030-21828-7_9
2157:Masquerade and Civilization
1755:(June 1967, pp 58–70) p 75.
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1346:A Good Man Is Hard to Find
1254:literature or in Sterne's
1212:Dr. Frankenstein's monster
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1737:Ten Books on Architecture
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2182:Hanis McLaren Caldwell,
1818:Listri, Massimo (2020).
1680:
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1511:Grotesque (architecture)
1485:Theatre of the Grotesque
1479:Theatre of the Grotesque
1429:bizarro genre of fiction
1355:. The American novelist
1231:The Phantom of the Opera
204:Etymology in Renaissance
132:Roman frescos in Nero's
2619:Encyclopædia Britannica
2529:. Assets.cambridge.org.
1948:Cabinets of Curiosities
1822:. Taschen. p. 52.
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830:Cleveland Museum of Art
828:, 1790s, oil on panel,
803:Palace of Fontainebleau
508:Pope Clement VII Medici
321:Pilgrim bottle, by the
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2474:Harpham, Geoffrey Galt
2466:Rabelais and His World
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2171:Studies in Romanticism
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238:Piccolomini Library
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1586:William Thorowgood
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434:Mannerism
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