All Things Vain: Religious Satirists and Their Art

by Robert Kantra

Religion and satire can be incompatible, even opposed, but they can also join to produce great art. So argues this wide-ranging book, which seeks to identify the essence of religious satire, beginning with the art of such Renaissance figures as Erasmus and D rer and concluding with such modern writers as Beckett, Eliot, and Waugh. Modern painters and sculptors, though not often concerned with religious satire, may employ its themes--as indeed may...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271003588
• ISBN13: 9780271003580
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"