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Verfasst von:Silver, Larry [VerfasserIn]   i
Titel:Fools & folly in Flemish art
Mitwirkende:Cauteren, Katharina van [VerfasserIn einer Einleitung]   i
Institutionen:The Phoebus Foundation [Herausgebendes Organ]   i
Verf.angabe:Larry Silver ; The Phoebus Foundation ; with an introduction by Katharina Van Cauteren
Verlagsort:[Veurne]
Verlag:Hannibal
E-Jahr:2022
Jahr:[2022]
Umfang:255 Seiten
Illustrationen:Illustrationen
ISBN:978-94-6388-781-6
Abstract:"According to medieval theologians, faith is a deadly serious business. Humour and virtue are irreconcilable, because laughter is uncontrollable and escapes the control of reason. A modest smile is permitted. But laughing loudly, grinning and grimacing: these are the playing field of the devil - just as pernicious as other uncontrollable urges, such as physical love or the addiction of the gambler. That is the domain of the peasant or fool. In the late Middle Ages, every right-thinking town-dweller knew the difference between the peasant and the fool. Peasants are innocently gullible, primitive, throwing themselves into feasting, gorging, drinking and sex. The peasant is the antithesis of the cultivated urbanite, who fastidiously controls his urges - and who therefore above all must not laugh too loudly. Only during Innocents Day parties or Shrove Tuesday celebrations is it permitted for urban partygoers to play the fool and to show their 'underbelly'. In contrast to the peasant, the fool escapes the existing order. He holds up a mirror to the self-declared wise citizens, because 'the fool reveals the truth through laughter', even though it may be hidden between piss and shit, sex and snot. It is for precisely this reason that Erasmus, in his In Praise of Folly writes not as himself but through the persona of Folly, a broad back behind which the wise person can hide when he denounces social problems. Laughter thus alters the world. In this context, the fool and irony became important motifs in medieval art, especially in the Low Countries. This original art book is illustrated with dozens of top-quality works by Flemish masters from worldwide collections."--
URL:Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz1830976834inh.htm
Schlagwörter:(g)Niederlande   i / (s)Narr <Motiv>   i / (s)Narrheit   i / (s)Kunst   i / (z)Geschichte 1500-1600   i
Sprache:eng
Sach-SW:Folie dans l'art
 Art flamand - Histoire
 Art médiéval - Flandre
 Fous et bouffons dans l'art
 Art, Flemish
 Art, Medieval
 Folly in art
 Fools and jesters in art
 History
Geograph. SW:Europe - Flanders
K10plus-PPN:1830976834
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