¥5,830
Three Moral Tales: Joëlle de La Casinière, Ana Jotta, and Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
A collection of works published in conjunction with the exhibition "Three Moral Tales," held at Malmö Konsthall in Sweden from June 15 to August 25, 2019.
Moral Tales are a literary genre that was especially prevalent in 18th-century Europe. Ways of being and acting that were strongly bound to conventions assigned to social roles and genres began to reorganize established patterns, the so-called "laws of nature," due to the rise of rationality and free thought characteristic of this period. Through allegory and satire, morality tales expressed a sharp critical view of the social relations and hierarchies of the time, often using radical irony and cruelty to decipher the unknown rules that were at work in this early capitalist era, as in the stories of Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels and the Marquis de Sade. The works of the three artists invited to "Three Moral Tales" are not moralist works, but they assume a certain moral dimension by presenting themselves as critical allegories. Joëlle de La Casinière, Ana Jotta and Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven use allegory and sometimes caricature to observe and criticize the cruelty of human relationships. The "moral tales" told by these three artists scrutinize representations of evil and mock hierarchy, tradition and the social order. In doing so, they also echo a certain spirit of the symbolist avant-garde of the early 20th century.
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Title: Three Moral Tales
Artist: Joëlle de La Casinière, Ana Jotta, and Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
Paraguay Press, 2019
Soft cover, ring binding
220 x 315 mm
76 pages (105 color illustrations)
Text in English
First edition
ISBN : 978-2-918252-63-4
¥5,830 -
Moral Tales are a literary genre that was especially prevalent in 18th-century Europe. Ways of being and acting that were strongly bound to conventions assigned to social roles and genres began to reorganize established patterns, the so-called "laws of nature," due to the rise of rationality and free thought characteristic of this period. Through allegory and satire, morality tales expressed a sharp critical view of the social relations and hierarchies of the time, often using radical irony and cruelty to decipher the unknown rules that were at work in this early capitalist era, as in the stories of Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels and the Marquis de Sade. The works of the three artists invited to "Three Moral Tales" are not moralist works, but they assume a certain moral dimension by presenting themselves as critical allegories. Joëlle de La Casinière, Ana Jotta and Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven use allegory and sometimes caricature to observe and criticize the cruelty of human relationships. The "moral tales" told by these three artists scrutinize representations of evil and mock hierarchy, tradition and the social order. In doing so, they also echo a certain spirit of the symbolist avant-garde of the early 20th century.
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Title: Three Moral Tales
Artist: Joëlle de La Casinière, Ana Jotta, and Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
Paraguay Press, 2019
Soft cover, ring binding
220 x 315 mm
76 pages (105 color illustrations)
Text in English
First edition
ISBN : 978-2-918252-63-4
¥5,830 -
