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Parody and Festivity in Early Modern Art: Essays on Comedy as Social Vision book cover

1st Edition

Parody and Festivity in Early Modern Art Essays on Comedy as Social Vision

Edited By David R. Smith Copyright 2012
224 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

Dwelling on the rich interconnections between parody and festivity in humanist thought and popular culture alike, the essays in this volume delve into the nature and the meanings of festive laughter as it was conceived of in early modern art. The concept of 'carnival' supplies the main thread connecting these essays. Bound as festivity often is to popular culture, not all the topics fit the... Read more
Contents: Sociable laughter, deep laughter, David R. Smith; In praise of folly, Paul Barolsky; Drinking as gods, laughing as men: Velázquez and the gift of Bacchus, Aneta Georgievska-Shine; Hunter rabbits/hares in 15th- and 16th-century northern art: parody and carnival?, Diane Scillia; The early modern lottery in the Netherlands: charity as festival and parody, Jane Kromm; Truth in painting - comedic resolution in Breugel's Landscape with the Magpie on the Gallows, Catherine Levesque; Parody, proverb, and paradox in two late works by Pieter Breugel the Elder, David A. Levine; Exuberant gluttony: Breugel's overeaters, Yemi Onafuwa; Bakhtinian carnivalesque in the clown images of Rouault, Soo Y. Kang; Parodies of life: Baccio del Bianco's comic drawings of dwarfs, Sandra Cheng; Jan van der Heyden's Feast of Purim, David R. Smith; Le Cedille qui Sourit: aesthetic research under the 'sign of humor', Rosemary O'Neill; General bibliography; Index.

Biography

David R. Smith is Professor of Art History at the University of New Hampshire, USA.

'Altogether, this diverse collection of essays makes a stimulating contribution to the study of humor in visual culture.' Renaissance Quarterly

'... a most welcome beginning to future work on comedy. The volume innovatively discusses the tough topic of laughter and comedy.' Historians of Netherlandish Art

'With its discerning and in-depth essays, the book contributes significantly to the study of festive culture and attests to the importance and the need of analyzing carefully all its manifestations.' Journal of the Northern Renaissance

'The book offers a rich array of delightful visual and textual material, which will enable readers to rediscover art from a different perspective, as defined by Paul Barolsky: "art is frequently fun-a form of play!"' Sixteenth Century Journal

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