Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Laughter Hardcover - 2006
by Walter S. Gibson
From the rear cover
"In Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Laughter Walter Gibson makes it abundantly clear that laughter is a key feature in many of Bruegel's works. He examines witty and humorous elements in Bruegel's paintings, prints, and drawings and creates a context for understanding them as part of sixteenth-century culture. The material Gibson brings to bear on Bruegel will be new to many. This book will appeal to art historians and anyone interested in sixteenth-century thought and culture."--John Oliver Hand, Curator of Northern Renaissance Paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington
"This book offers a much needed, and long overdue alternative to the primarily moralizing approach to Northern Renaissance and Baroque art and the works of Pieter Bruegel. Walter Gibson goes way beyond what art history has offered to date, giving a new, more balanced reading of Bruegel's art."--Alison Stewart, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
"In Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Laughter Walter Gibson offers a marvelously engaging antidote to the hermetic readings that have plagued the interpretation of Bruegel's works for far too long. The book provides an abundance of evidence for the importance of laughter in the responses these works were intended to provoke, illuminating not only the paintings and prints of this much misunderstood artist, but also the role of laughter in sixteenth-century culture as a whole."--David Freedberg, Professor of Art History at Columbia University
Details
- Title Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Laughter
- Author Walter S. Gibson
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition /F
- Pages 287
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, BERKELEY, CA
- Date 2006-02-01
- ISBN 9780520245211 / 0520245210
- Weight 1.39 lbs (0.63 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.34 x 1.03 in (23.62 x 16.10 x 2.62 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 16th Century
- Cultural Region: Benelux
- Library of Congress subjects Wit and humor in art, Bruegel, Pieter - Criticism and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005043050
- Dewey Decimal Code 759.949
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