Mock Humanity!

Two Essays on James Ensor's Grotesques

Bart Verschaffel author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:BAI NV

Published:30th Jan '19

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Mock Humanity! cover

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.

ISBN: 9789076714516

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112 pages