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Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Laughter.(Book review)
Renaissance Quarterly
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June 22, 2007|
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Walter S. Gibson. Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Laughter.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xxii + 266 pp. index. illus. bibl. $49.95. ISBN: 0-520-24521-0.
Walter Gibson, a well-known scholar of sixteenth-century Netherlandish art, has set himself an impressive and daunting task in his latest book. He tackles a dilemma familiar to all encountering the powerful yet still puzzling work of Bruegel. Today's viewer cannot rely upon his or her eyes or even older Netherlandish visual traditions to come to terms with the work, but needs keys long ...
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