Mock Humanity

Mock Humanity James Ensor's Grotesques and the History of Caricature by Jules Champfleury : Frame and Figure in the Work of James Ensor - Exhibitions International

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9789076714516
Publisher: BAI NV
Imprint: BAI
Pub date:
DEWEY: 759.9493
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 111
Weight: 526g
Height: 221mm
Width: 261mm
Spine width: 11mm