Mikhail Bakhtin

Federico Beltrán Masses, Carnival, 1925 “Deeply ambivalent also is the image of fire in carnival. It is a fire that...

Georgia O'Keeffe, Clam and mussel, 1926 “Fear can only enter a part that has been separated from the whole,the dying...

Konstantin Somov, Two Masks (Pair on the Eve of the Carnival), 1930 “The principle of laughter and the carnival spirit...