Grotesque checklist
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This is a list of artists and theorists working in the grotesque, based on a list by David Lavery[1]. I've excluded the artists and theorists which were already present in the list of Philip Thomson, another theorist of the grotesque. David Lavery also published a bibliography on the grotesque[2].
- Charles Addams (cartoonist)
- Sherwood Anderson (writer)
- Diane Arbus (photographer)
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo (painter)
- Antonin Artaud (playwright, theorist)
- Richard Avedon (photographer)
- Francis Bacon (painter)
- J. G. Ballard (writer)
- Georges Bataille (critic/theorist)
- Aubrey Beardsley (painter)
- Beavis and Butt-head (cartoon series)
- Ambrose Bierce (writer)
- T. Coraghessan Boyle (writer)
- Constantin Brancusi (sculptor)
- Charles Bukowski (poet)
- Luis Bunuel (filmmaker)
- William Burroughs (writer)
- Robert Burton (writer, physician)
- Tim Burton (filmmaker)
- Wilhelm Busch (cartoonist)
- Joel and Ethan Coen (filmmakers)
- Commedia dell'arte (theatrical form)
- Harry Crews (writer)
- David Cronenberg (filmmaker)
- Robert Crumb (cartoonist)
- Willem de Kooning (painter)
- Otto Dix (painter)
- Jean Dubuffet (painter)
- El Greco (painter)
- James Ensor (painter)
- The Far Side (cartoon)
- Farrelly brothers (filmmakers)
- William Faulkner (writer)
- Federico Fellini (filmmaker)
- Leslie Fiedler (critic/theorist)
- Howard Finster (painter)
- Gargoyles (sculpture)
- Terry Gilliam (filmmaker)
- Nikolai Gogol (writer)
- Grand Guignol (theatrical form)
- Robert Graves (poet)
- Günter Grass (writer)
- Peter Greenaway (filmmaker)
- George Grosz (painter)
- William Hogarth (artist)
- Derek Jarman (filmmaker)
- Jim Jarmusch (filmmaker)
- Alejandro Jodorowsky (filmmaker)
- Frida Kahlo (painter)
- Alfred Kubin (painter)
- Tom Lehrer (singer/songwriter)
- Limerick (verse form)
- H. P. Lovecraft (horror writer)
- David Lynch (filmmaker)
- Mad Magazine (magazine)
- Magic Realism (literary style)
- René Magritte (painter)
- Robert Mapplethorpe (photographer)
- Carson McCullers (writer)
- Mexican Muralists (painters)
- Monty Python's Flying Circus (comedy troupe)
- Henry Moore (sculptor)
- Mr. Bill (claymation)
- Helmut Newton (photographer)
- Joyce Carol Oates (writer and critic)
- Flannery O'Connor (writer and critic)
- Chuck Palahniuk (writer)
- Ren and Stimpy (cartoon series)
- Jean-Paul Richter (writer)
- Earl of Rochester (poet)
- Philip Roth (writer)
- Ken Russell (filmmaker)
- N.F. Simpson (playwright)
- The Simpsons (animated television series)
- Patti Smith (rock singer)
- Todd Solondz (filmmaker)
- South Park (cartoon series)
- Survival Research Laboratories (performance artists)
- Ralph Steadman (artist)
- Stelarc (performance artist)
- Igor Stravinsky (composer)
- Jan Švankmajer (filmmaker)
- Talking Heads (rock group)
- Quentin Tarantino (filmmaker)
- Theatre of the Absurd (theatre movement)
- Hunter Thompson (writer)
- John Kennedy Toole (writer)
- Amos Tutuola (writer)
- Mark Twain (writer)
- Urban legends
- John Waters (filmmaker)
- Weegee (photographer)
- William Wegman (photographer)
- Nathanael West (writer)
- Wisconsin Death Trip (photography)
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