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Parody and Festivity in Early Modern Art: Essays on Comedy as Social Vision

Parody and Festivity in Early Modern Art: Essays on Comedy as Social Vision

Paperback

Art History

ISBN10: 1138249203
ISBN13: 9781138249202
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 11 2016
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Dwelling on the interconnections between parody and festivity as forms of inversion, the essays in this volume delve into the nature and the meanings of festive laughter as depicted in early modern art. Chapters deal most often with Northern Renaissance and Baroque art; themes include grobianism and the grotesque, scatology, popular proverbs with ironic twists, and a wide range of comic reversals, many hinging on ideas of the world upside down.

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