Goya : The Last Carnival


Victor I. Stoichita
Bok Engelsk 2000 · Electronic books.
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London : : Reaktion Books, , 2000.
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1 online resource (325 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 The Turn of the Century as a Symbolic Form; 2 The Carnival Is Dead, Long Live the Carnival!; 3 Vertigo; 4 Clinic of Pure Reason; 5 Goya's Pharmacy; 6 The Carnival of Language; 7 Royal Games; 8 Ha-ha, Ho-ho, Hu-hu, He-he!; Appendix: Publicity Notice from the Diario de Madrid, 6 February 1799; References; List of Illustrations. - This intriguing book on Goya concentrates on the closing years of the eighteenth century as a neglected milestone in his life. Goya waited until 1799 to publish his celebrated series of drawings, the Caprichos, which offered a personal vision of the ""world turned upside down"". Victor I. Stoichita and Anna Maria Coderch consider how themes of Revolution and Carnival (both seen as inversions of the established order) were obsessions in Spanish culture in this period, and make provocative connections between the close of the 1700s and the end of the Millennium. Particular emphasis is placed on
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