Title: Modern art and the grotesque
Description: "This volume examines how the grotesque has shaped the history, practice, and theory of art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Examining specific images by a range of artists, such as Ingres, Gauguin, Hoch, de Kooning, Polke, and Mona Hatoum, the essays also encompass a variety of media, including medical illustration, paintings, prints, photography, multimedia installations, and film. This study brings into focus a range of subjects, styles and theoretical viewpoints that have traditionally been marginalized in the standard narratives on modernism. It demonstrates how the grotesque in modern art directly ties into current debates regarding the representation of race and gender, abjection and the Other, globalization, and appropriation."--Jacket.
Subjects: Modern Arts, Grotesque in art, Grotesque, Arts, modern, Modern Art, Themes, motives
Time periods: 20th century, 19th century