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Goya : the last carnival / Victor I. Stoichita and Anna Maria Coderch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stoichiță, Victor Ieronim.
- Series:
- Essays in art and culture (London, England)
- Essays in art and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carnival in art.
- Goya, Francisco, 1746-1828--Criticism and interpretation.
- Goya, Francisco.
- Goya, Francisco, 1746-1828. Caprichos.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (325 p.)
- Other Title:
- Last carnival
- Place of Publication:
- London : Reaktion Books, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This intriguing book on Goya concentrates on the closing years of the eighteenth century as a neglected milestone in his life. Goya waited until 1799 to publish his celebrated series of drawings, the Caprichos, which offered a personal vision of the ""world turned upside down"". Victor I. Stoichita and Anna Maria Coderch consider how themes of Revolution and Carnival (both seen as inversions of the established order) were obsessions in Spanish culture in this period, and make provocative connections between the close of the 1700s and the end of the Millennium. Particular emphasis is placed on
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 The Turn of the Century as a Symbolic Form; 2 The Carnival Is Dead, Long Live the Carnival!; 3 Vertigo; 4 Clinic of Pure Reason; 5 Goya's Pharmacy; 6 The Carnival of Language; 7 Royal Games; 8 Ha-ha, Ho-ho, Hu-hu, He-he!; Appendix: Publicity Notice from the Diario de Madrid, 6 February 1799; References; List of Illustrations
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-316).
- ISBN:
- 9786612255496
- 9781282255494
- 1282255495
- 9781861896667
- 1861896662
- OCLC:
- 465191377
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