contemporary art are the grotesque, the carnivalesque, abjection, and informe (from the French, meaning formless), each of which has its own particular set of meanings and characteristics. The grotesque, for example, can be traced back, in location and inetymology, to the walls of roman grottoes, where renaissance scholars discovered highly ornamental frescoes depicting fantastical chimeras. Artists then, newly liverated from the heavy hand of the medieval church, saw griffins, satyrs, and centaurs as celebrations…
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