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.
- ISBN13 9789076714516
- Publish Date 30 January 2019
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country BE
- Imprint BAI NV
- Format Paperback
- Pages 112
- Language English