Mock Humanity - Bart Verschaffel

Name: Mock Humanity
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Author: Bart Verschaffel
ISBN: 9789076714516

Two essays on James Ensor's grotesques

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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.

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