Mock humanity
By: Bart Verschaffel
Contributors: Ensor, James, 1860-1949
Publisher: A&S/books
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Gent, Belgium
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9789076714516
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Influence; Grotesque in art; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Other titles: Mock humanity :
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 110-111).
Table of contents: title: James Ensor's grotesques and the "History of Caricature" by Jules Champfleury; title: Frame and figure in the work of James Ensor.