Wednesday, July 9, 2014

OTHRE CHIMERAE
babewyn, babuino, baboon :

the three main tropes of the grotesque are doubleness, hybridity and metamorphosis.

Leviores et extemporaneae picturae quas grotteschas vulgo vocant, "Light and extemporaneous pictures that are vulgarly called grotesques"
half-human thumbnail vignettes drawn in the margins

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