Verbal Therapy – “Painting Told” by Alfred Kubin Cover Image

Terapia słowem – „opowiedziane malarstwo” Alfreda Kubina
Verbal Therapy – “Painting Told” by Alfred Kubin

Author(s): Ewelina Bajer
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: art synthesis; grotesque; literature; painting; Alfred Kubin

Summary/Abstract: The Other Side (1909) is the only novel by an Austrian painter and illustrator, Alfred Kubin. His work epitomizes the modernist concept of art synthesis. Kubin, drawing from the aesthetics of grotesque, creates an amalgam of apparently detached forms of representation, literature and painting. The Other Side uses surrealist humour and nightmarish motifs of onirism to convey the existential anxiety of fin de si`ecle.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 08
  • Page Range: 231-248
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish
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