James Ensor
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"Belgian artist James Ensor was one of extreme individualism. His work was both deeply personal, and socially radical, and he employed biting humor and satire to create overtly anti-establishmentarian imagery. While he explored a vast... more
Vittorio Pica è oggetto di una rivisitazione storica relativamente recente. Nonostante gli studi pionieristici di Lamberti e Picone Petrusa, solo negli ultimi dieci anni, in effetti, è stata messa in atto un’operazione di ricostruzione... more
The illustrations from Jules Champfleury’s (1821-1889) publications on L'Histoire de la caricature were a crucial source of imagery for James Ensor between 1885 and 1900. Direct and significant borrowings from Champfleury can be... more
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da Bosch a Botero, gli artisti che hanno rappresentato il circo nelle loro opere artistiche.
I argue that Ensor's perceiving masks and skeletons, as well as his opaque paint application, point to the problem of solipsism and its practical attendant, egoism, in fin de siècle art and culture. I connect this to the use of masks in... more
Dar Kapıdaki Mesih: Walter Benjamin ve Politik Felsefesi, derleyen: M. Ertan Kardeş, İthaki Yayınları, 2017. "Belirgin bir yönelimin kaybolması anlamında dünyanın çığırından çıktığı bir zamandan geçiyoruz yine. Tarihselliğin bir tür... more
The essays in this book establish that the Belgian painter James Ensor did not develop his fantastical and grotesque universe of masks and skeletons out of his melancholic soul, but that he heavily exploited and transformed an ancient... more
a novel without a plot, and with only one character, being, indeed, simply a psychological study of a certain young Parisian, who spent his life trying to realize in the nineteenth century all the passions and modes of thought that... more
(presentazione della casa editrice) James Ensor (Ostenda 1860-1949), figlio di un ingegnere inglese e di una negoziante fiamminga di Ostenda, comincia a interessarsi all’arte ancora molto giovane. Si iscrive all’Accademia di belle arti... more
À l’occasion du centenaire de la mort d’Émile Verhaeren, ce livre tente de renouveler le regard porté sur l’œuvre du poète belge, en conjuguant ses textes les plus célèbres, des textes oubliés ou inédits, des extraits de correspondances,... more
Art exhibition review Recensione della mostra "Gli impressionisti e la neve. La Francia e l’Europa", a cura di Marco Goldin, Torino, Promotrice delle Belle Arti (dal 27 novembre 2004 al 25 aprile 2005). Pubblicata sulla rivista online... more