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Carnivalesque / Timothy Hyman, Roger Malbert.
Fine Arts Library N8217.G8 C37 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hyman, Timothy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grotesque in art--Exhibitions.
- Grotesque in art.
- Carnival in art--Exhibitions.
- Carnival in art.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 107 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hayward Gallery Pub., [2000]
- Summary:
- 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'.
- Artist and writer Timothy Hyman explores the history of an 'alternative canon' that ranges from medieval woodcuts and misericords to drawings, paintings and prints by Bruegel, Callot, the Tiepolos, Gillray, Goya and Ensor. Recent and contemporary works by Louise Bourgeois, Paul McCarthy, Paula Rego and Leigh Bowery are discussed in the light of Bakhtinian theory by Roger Malbert, and the medieval art historian, Malcolm Jones, speculates on the meaning of some recently discovered medieval pilgrim badges.
- Contents:
- A Carnival Sense of the World / Timothy Hyman 8
- Exaggeration and Degradation: Grotesque Humour in Contemporary Art / Roger Malbert 74
- The Late-Medieval Dutch Pilgrim Badges / Malcolm Jones 98.
- Notes:
- "Published on the occasion of the exhibition ... a National Touring Exhibition organised by the Hayward Gallery, London, for the Arts Council of England, in collaboration with Brighton Museum and Art Gallery"--T.p. verso.
- Exhibition held at the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, May 6-July 2, 2000, and at five other locations in the United Kingdom until Dec. 16, 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 102).
- ISBN:
- 1853322091
- OCLC:
- 44449237
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