{"id":26,"date":"2017-07-04T20:13:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T20:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2017-09-28T13:30:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T13:30:01","slug":"once-upon-a-time","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/?page_id=26","title":{"rendered":"Once Upon a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Once Upon a Time<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76\" src=\"http:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Edwards_Geraint_Once-upon-a-time.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"http:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Edwards_Geraint_Once-upon-a-time.jpg 2000w, http:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Edwards_Geraint_Once-upon-a-time-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Edwards_Geraint_Once-upon-a-time-768x511.jpg 768w, http:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Edwards_Geraint_Once-upon-a-time-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This work is an attempt to condense the basic premise of most folktales into one all-encompassing concept.<\/p>\n<p>Before the nineteenth-century, pre-capitalist folktales or \u201cVolksm\u00e4rchen\u201d were full of righteous aristocrats fending off evil, magic-wielding misanthropes. By the nineteenth-century, and with the rise of the middle-classes, these tales morphed into the bourgeois art form of the \u201cKunstm\u00e4rchen\u201d, and they became symbolic of the struggle against feudalism. For example, the witch in Hansel and Gretel represents the feudal lord who enjoys a life of plenty (she lives in a house made of food). She is literally feeding off the people and their children (she tries to cook them in the oven), and is a hoarder of wealth (when the children kill her, they find a stash of jewels and bring them back to the poor, hard-working woodcutter).<br \/>\nThis piece is executed in cross-stitch on 18-point cream aida cloth and was exhibited at \u201cOut Of Context\u201d at Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Once Upon a Time This work is an attempt to condense the basic premise of most folktales into one all-encompassing concept. Before the nineteenth-century, pre-capitalist folktales or \u201cVolksm\u00e4rchen\u201d were full of righteous aristocrats fending off evil, magic-wielding misanthropes. By the nineteenth-century, and with the rise of the middle-classes, these tales morphed into the bourgeois [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"http:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}