Description
McGraw-Hill, Published 1966. Paperback, 224 pp.; 21 cm; first McGraw-Hill paperback edition; illustrated with black-and-white plates reproducing grotesque imagery from Bruegel and Bosch to de Chirico and Tanguy.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition. Glossy pictorial wrappers with a halftone cover design; mild shelf wear, with light toning to the covers, bumping and creasing to the edges and corners, and light soiling to the rear wrapper. Binding tight; pages lightly toned but otherwise unmarked. Wolfgang Kayser's study of the grotesque, translated from the German by Ulrich Weisstein, traces the grotesque as a category in Western art and literature from the Renaissance grotteschi through the Sturm und Drang and Romanticism to its modern forms in Kafka, the Surrealists, and dream narration. Contents: The Grotesque, the Word and Its Meaning; The Extension of the Meaning of Grotesque; The Grotesque in the Age of Romanticism; The Grotesque in the Nineteenth Century; The Grotesque in the Twentieth Century; with notes and index.