American grotesque
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"Even though the writer who produces grotesque fiction may not consider his characters any more freakish than ordinary fallen man usually is, his audience is going to; and it is going to ask him–or more often, tell him–why he has chosen to bring such maimed souls alive. Thomas Mann has said that the grotesque is the true anti-bourgeois style, but I believe that in this country, the general reader has managed to connect the grotesque with the sentimental, for whenever he speaks of it favorably, he seems to associate it with the writer's compassion." --Flannery O'Connor, "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction", 1960. |
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This page American grotesque is about the grotesque sensibility in American art, literature and theory.
This is a list of American artists and writers working in the grotesque, based on a list by David Lavery[1].
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Writers
- Edgar Allan Poe (writer, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque)
- Ambrose Bierce
- Mark Twain
- H. P. Lovecraft
- T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Charles Bukowski
- William Burroughs
- Sherwood Anderson
- William Faulkner
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Flannery O'Connor ("Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction")
- Chuck Palahniuk
- Carson McCullers
- Philip Roth
- Hunter Thompson
- John Kennedy Toole
- Nathanael West
Cartoons and animations
- Charles Addams
- Robert Crumb
- Beavis and Butt-head (cartoon series)
- Mad Magazine (magazine)
- Ren and Stimpy (cartoon series)
- South Park (cartoon series)
Photography
- Wisconsin Death Trip (photography)
- Without Sanctuary: Postcards and Photographs of Lynching in America
- Diane Arbus
- Richard Avedon
- Robert Mapplethorpe
- Weegee
- William Wegman
Filmmakers
Painting
Theory
Music
See also
