The Portrait of Eccentricity: Arcimboldo and the Mannerist Grotesque

by Giancarlo Maiorino

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0271007273

ISBN13:9780271007274

Release Date:March 1991

Publisher:Penn State University Press

Length:184 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Art Arts, Music & Photography Conceptual History History & Criticism Individual Artists Other Media

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