Victorian Culture and the Idea of the GrotesqueColin Trodd, Paul Barlow, David Amigoni Monstrous, absurd, humorous, demotic and contradictory: the Grotesque is a protean force working across different areas of Victorian life. This text examines a wide range of sources and materials in order to provide new readings of an important force that oscillates between style and concept. |
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Page 128
... painting as Dadd's own ' master - stroke ' , particularly as he painted relatively little after his transfer to Broadmoor . My discussion of the painting will show how it both represents and attempts to disavow this fascination , and ...
... painting as Dadd's own ' master - stroke ' , particularly as he painted relatively little after his transfer to Broadmoor . My discussion of the painting will show how it both represents and attempts to disavow this fascination , and ...
Page 175
... painting and ethics are unified , and where art recedes to a place prior to its own foundation . At this point Chesterton echoes Mrs Barrington , Watts's friend and biographer , for whom the painter tries ' to embody in art an echo of ...
... painting and ethics are unified , and where art recedes to a place prior to its own foundation . At this point Chesterton echoes Mrs Barrington , Watts's friend and biographer , for whom the painter tries ' to embody in art an echo of ...
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... painting that insists on the integration of things . In order to preserve the true character of the human form the body becomes a network of landscape motifs : clouds , grass , ground , flowers , birds are ener- gized by a light that ...
... painting that insists on the integration of things . In order to preserve the true character of the human form the body becomes a network of landscape motifs : clouds , grass , ground , flowers , birds are ener- gized by a light that ...
Contents
List of contributors xi | 1 |
biography Bahktin and grotesque | 21 |
Thomas Carlyles grotesque conceits 377 | 37 |
Copyright | |
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aberrant aesthetic alien animal articulation artist attempt Bagehot Barasch beauty becomes bodily body Boswell Boswell's Brown Caliban Caliban Upon Setebos caricature Carlyle Carlyle's Cattermole century Chesterton Civilization claims Classical complex conception conflation critical Cromwell Cromwell's Dadd Dadd's Darwin decorative depicts Dickens Dickens's discourse Dresser embody energy entangled bank Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke fantastic figures force Ford Madox Ford Madox Brown French Revolution G. F. Watts Gothic grotesque grotesque body grotto Hegel human Ibid idea ideal identified identity illustration imagery imagination John Ruskin language London majolica Marx material modern narrative natural world objects Origin painting Palissy poem Poetry Pre-Raphaelite primal reading Renaissance representation Richard Dadd Romantic Ruskin Sartor Sartor Resartus sculpture sense social species Stephen Strand magazine structure struggle sublime Teufelsdröckh theory Thomas Carlyle Thomas Woolner tion Trodd Victorian culture violence vision visual Watts Gallery Watts's Woolner Wright writing