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Los caprichos / Francisco Goya y Lucientes ; introduction by Philip Hofer

By:

Goya, Francisco de, (, 1746-1828)

Contributor(s):

Goya, Francisco de, (, 1746-1828)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York, USA : Dover Publications , 1969.Description: 9 p. : 87 platesISBN:

0486223841

Subject(s):

Painter -- -Spain

DDC classification:

769.92 GOY

Abstract: After a serious illness in 1792, Goya spent five years recuperating and preparing himself for the burst of creativity that was to follow. He read deeply in the French revolutionary philosophers. From Rousseau he evolved the idea that imagination divorced from reason produces monsters, but that coupled with reason "it is the mother of the arts and the source of their wonders." In Spain he saw a country that had abandoned reason, and he peopled Los Caprichos with the grotesque monsters that result from such an action. Plate after plate shows witches, asses, devils, and other strange creatures, many of which are caricatures of members of the society against which Goya was fighting.

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After a serious illness in 1792, Goya spent five years recuperating and preparing himself for the burst of creativity that was to follow. He read deeply in the French revolutionary philosophers. From Rousseau he evolved the idea that imagination divorced from reason produces monsters, but that coupled with reason "it is the mother of the arts and the source of their wonders." In Spain he saw a country that had abandoned reason, and he peopled Los Caprichos with the grotesque monsters that result from such an action. Plate after plate shows witches, asses, devils, and other strange creatures, many of which are caricatures of members of the society against which Goya was fighting.

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