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Parody and Festivity in Early Modern Art - Essays on Comedy as Social Vision (Paperback)
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Parody and Festivity in Early Modern Art - Essays on Comedy as Social Vision (Paperback)
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Dwelling on the rich interconnections between parody and festivity
in humanist thought and popular culture alike, the essays in this
volume delve into the nature and the meanings of festive laughter
as it was conceived of in early modern art. The concept of
'carnival' supplies the main thread connecting these essays. Bound
as festivity often is to popular culture, not all the topics fit
the canons of high art, and some of the art is distinctly low-brow
and occasionally ephemeral; themes include grobianism and the
grotesque, scatology, popular proverbs with ironic twists, and a
wide range of comic reversals, some quite profound. Many hinge on
ideas of the world upside down. Though the chapters most often deal
with Northern Renaissance and Baroque art, they spill over into
other countries, times, and cultures, while maintaining the
carnivalesque air suggested by the book's title.
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