Salome and Judas in the Cave of Sex
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Salome and Judas in the Cave of Sex: The Grotesque : Origins, Iconography, Techniques is a book by Ewa Kuryluk on the grotesque. The central section of the book is about grotesque iconography in the work of Aubrey Beardsley.
At the end of the book she classifies different distorting techniques following the work of Wolfgang Kayser and Mikhail Bakhtin but creating her own hybrid, because "Kayser is all about the nightmare, estranged qualities of the grotesque, and Bakhtin is more about joy and laughter and carnival rebellion" (Rumsey, 2013). Below is that list, with additions by Paul Rumsey.
- Distortion of scale, enlarge to giants or shrink... in relation to a context.
- Elongation or compression, stretching or compacting.
- Separation, mixture, reassembly, to create hybrids. Different animals together, etc.
- Multiplication, extra heads, limbs, eyes, etc.
- Reversal, topsy turvey world, etc.
- Animation of the inanimate.
- Fantastic interpretation and projection, clouds as animals, mountains as giants, etc.
- Changing of substance, melted watches, birds made of rocks, etc.
- Composite, like Arcimboldo.
- Things out of their normal context...
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See also
- "Wundergestalte Grillische, Grubengrotteschische" --Johann Fischart, (1545 - 91)
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