Mock humanity
An edition of Mock humanity (2018)
By Bart Verschaffel
Publish Date
2018
Publisher
A&S/books
Language
eng
Pages
111
Description:
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.