{"product_id":"bartok-and-the-grotesque","title":"Bartók and the Grotesque","description":"The grotesque is one of art's most puzzling figures -  transgressive, comprising an unresolveable hybrid, generally focussing on the human body, full of hyperbole, and ultimately semantically deeply puzzling. In Bluebeard's Castle (1911), The Wooden Prince (1916\/17), The Miraculous Mandarin (1919\/24, rev. 1931) and Cantata Profana (1930), Bartók engaged scenarios featuring either overtly grotesque bodies or closely related transformations and violations of the body. In a number of instrumental works he also overtly engaged grotesque satirical strategies, sometimes - as in Two Portraits: 'Ideal' and 'Grotesque' - indicating this in the title.    In this book, Julie Brown argues that Bartók's concerns with stylistic hybridity (high-low, East-West, tonal-atonal-modal), the body, and the grotesque are inter-connected. While Bartók developed each interest in highly individual ways, and did so separately to a considerable extent, the three concerns remained conceptually interlinked. All three were thoroughly implicated in cultural constructions of the Modern during the period in which Bartók was composing.","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54262221865304,"sku":"9780754657774","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780754657774_df7d8650-610b-4cf1-ac47-bdbf16ae7f2b.jpg?v=1779338747","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/bartok-and-the-grotesque","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}