An eye for an eye: ocular motifs and picaresque envisagement in pictures

Conjectures regarding portraits of the Fool as performative hyper-icons in the picaresque tradition initiate an investigation of canny performances of duplicity in pictures on display. The focus falls on performances of unexpected convolutions acted out by spectators while looking repeatedly at dec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dirk van den Berg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Free State 2001-02-01
Series:Acta Academica
Online Access:https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/aa/article/view/636