The Portrait of Eccentricity – Arcimboldo and the Mannerist Grotesque
Autor Giancarlo Maiorinoen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 apr 1991
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780271023205
ISBN-10: 0271023201
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Penn State University
ISBN-10: 0271023201
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Penn State University