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Mock humanity
This book reveals that James Ensor did not develop his fantastic and grotesque universe of masks and skeletons out of his melancholic soul, but that he re-used and transformed an old image tradition that was collected and published by the French author and art critic Jules Champfleury in his 'H...
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| Document Type: | Book |
| Language: | English Dutch |
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Gent
: A&S/Books
, [2018]
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| Online Access: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Author Notes: | Bart Verschaffel |
| Summary: | This book reveals that James Ensor did not develop his fantastic and grotesque universe of masks and skeletons out of his melancholic soul, but that he re-used and transformed an old image tradition that was collected and published by the French author and art critic Jules Champfleury in his 'History of Caricature'. A second essay analyses how these weird creatures infiltrate the image borders and the frames of Ensor's paintings in order to disturb the 'normal' world |
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| Item Description: | Zusatz vom Buchcover: Two essays on James Ensor's grotesques |
| Physical Description: | 111 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9076714517 9789076714516 |
