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Grotesque

Grotesque is an adjective often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks. In art, performance, and literature, however, grotesque may also refer to something that simultaneously invokes an audience feeling of uncomfortable bizarreness as well as sympathetic pity.

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Theatre of the Grotesque

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related to Further reading · 80
Grotesque → Alessandra, Antiquity, Archived, Art, Art Nouveau, Ashgate, Assets, Berkeley, Bloomington, Bäckström, California PressBakhtin, Columbia University PressLee Byron, Comic Grotesque, Contradiction, Dacos, Domus Aurea, Edizioni Quasar, Ellerström, Enhet, Esti
related to Etymology in Renaissance · 21
Grotesque → Da Pintura Antiga, Francisco, Giovanni, Holanda, In, Light, Loggias, Michelangelo, Peter Ward-Jackson, Piccolomini Library, Raphael Sanzio, Raphael's Rooms, Roman, Romans, Rome, Siena, The, They, Udine, Vatican Palace
related to In literature · 20
Grotesque → Accordingly, British, Cyclops, Hesiod's Theogony, Homer's Polyphemus, Horace's Art, Indeed, It, King Lear, Montaigne's Essays, Odyssey, One, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Poetry, Some, Spenser's, The, The Faerie Queene, The Grotesque, Thomas Mann
related to Contemporary writers · 15
Grotesque → Alasdair Gray, Angela Carter, Brian Evenson, Chuck Palahniuk, Contemporary, Ian McEwan, Jeanette Winterson, Jessica Anthony, Katherine Dunn, Matt Bell, Natsuo Kirino, Patrick McGrath, Paul Tremblay, Richard Thomas, Umberto Eco
related to In typography · 15
Grotesque → An, Arial, At, English, Franklin Gothic, German, Grotesk, Haettenschweiler, Helvetica, Lucida Sans, News Gothic, Popular, The, Verdana, William Thorowgood
related to Mannerism · 15
Grotesque → Ancient Roman, Andrea Alciato's Emblemata, Apostolic Palace, Because, Domus Aurea, Europe, Giovanni, Mannerist, More, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Raphael's, The, The Vatican, This, Udine
related to Engravings, woodwork, book illustration, decorations · 13
Grotesque → At Fontainebleau Rosso Fiorentino, Enea Vico, European, In, Later Mannerist, Leviores, Light, Poland, Raphael, Romans, Soon, Spain, Urbino
related to Early examples in Roman ornament · 12
Grotesque → Access, BC, Domus Aurea, Emperor Nero's, Imperial Roman, In, Italian, Rome, Stylized, Such, The, Vitruvius
related to From Baroque to Victorian era · 11
Grotesque → Empire Style, Fielding's, In, It, Joseph Andrews, Mount Vesuvius, Pompeii, Roman, The, Tom Jones, Victorian
related to Extensions of the term in art · 10
Grotesque → Artists, By, English, From, German, In, It, Leonardo, Sir Thomas Browne, Vinci

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grotesques art used also literature style figures rome term often first century paris word roman italian le grottesche may palace

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Grotesqueis aadjective often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks0.90text
Grotesqueis apolite0.90text
Halloween masksinstance ofGrotesque is an adjective often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms0.80text
King Learinstance ofGrotesque comic elements can be found in major works0.80text
the carnivalinstance ofSometimes the grotesque in literature has been explored in terms of social and cultural formations0.80text
Frankenstein's monster begins to be presented more sympathetically as the outsider who is the victim of societyinstance ofIt is at this point that a grotesque creature0.80text
Spring Offensiveinstance ofPoems0.80text
Greater Love combined images of beauty with shocking brutalityinstance ofPoems0.80text
violence in order to produce a sense of the grotesque clash of oppositesinstance ofPoems0.80text
Grotesquerelated to Contemporary writersContemporary0.60section
Grotesquerelated to Contemporary writersIan McEwan0.60section
Grotesquerelated to Contemporary writersKatherine Dunn0.60section

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