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Seller's Description:
Fair. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Edge and corner wear; scuffed and scratched; small piece missing from the lower corner of the front of the wrapper; spine is creased; shelf worn; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall still a nice used copy! Black and white illustrated wrapper with red and black lettering. 224 historical and informative pages of text and 28 historic pages of black and white photographs and illustrations! "The art of our own day shows a greater affinity to the grotesque than that of any other epoch. Modern novels, modern paintings and sculputre are replete with grotesque features. In this modern classic of criticism, Wolfgang Kayser traces the historical development of the grotesque from the Italian Renaissance (which originated the word 'grottesco') through the 'chimeric' world of commedia dell'arte, Sturm und Drang, the age of Romanticism and nineteenth century 'realism, ' to its modern forms in poetry, dream narration and surrealist painting......."
