Description: Portrait of Eccentricity : Arcimboldo and the Mannerist Grotesque, Paperback by Maiorino, Giancarlo, ISBN 0271023201, ISBN-13 9780271023205, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In this companion to his The Cornucopian Mind and the Baroque Unity of the Arts, Maiorino examines the links between Renaissance and the modern versions of the Groteseque. In this interdisciplinary study, the term "eccentricity" refers to styles of playful extravagance. Maiorino focuses on the rhetorical figures of excess employed by a critic-historian (Giorgio Vasari), on the willful artificiality of a painter (Giuseppe Arcimboldo), and on the programmatic and interpretive commentary of a theorist (Gregorio Comanini). Maiorino draws subtle and persuasive connections between the images he discusses and the grotesque "face" of sixteenth-century poetics and rhetoric. He sets the mannerist and the grotesque against the philosophical seriousness of Renaissance humanism, interpreting them as a celebration of the ludic and fantastic possibilities of art itself. Aiming at pleasure rather than instruction, this art plays on the boundaries of the natural and the artificial, the credible and the impossible, taking delight in parody, excess, disjunction, and exaggeration.
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Book Title: Portrait of Eccentricity : Arcimboldo and the Mannerist Grotesque
Number of Pages: 184 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Portrait of Eccentricity : Arcimboldo and the Mannerist Grotesque
Publisher: Pennsylvania STATE University Press
Item Height: 0.4 in
Publication Year: 1991
Subject: Conceptual, General, History / General, History / Renaissance
Item Weight: 11.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Art
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Giancarlo Maiorino
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
