{"product_id":"the-portrait-of-eccentricity-arcimboldo-and-the-mannerist-grotesque-paperback","title":"The Portrait of Eccentricity: Arcimboldo and the Mannerist Grotesque - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGiancarlo Maiorino\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this companion to his \u003ci\u003eThe Cornucopian Mind and the Baroque Unity of the Arts\u003c\/i\u003e, Maiorino examines the links between Renaissance and the modern versions of the Groteseque.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaiorino 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiancarlo Maiorino is Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAdam \"New Born and perfect\" The Renaissance Promise of Eternity \u003c\/i\u003e(1987) and \u003ci\u003eThe Cornucopian Mind and the Baroque Unity of the Arts\u003c\/i\u003e (Penn State, 1990).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 9.18 x 5.34 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 13, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457447805181,"sku":"9780271023205","price":82.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/SjMzUlJOeGpnZGYyVk1tbkRnd2JKZz09.webp?v=1777237726","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/the-portrait-of-eccentricity-arcimboldo-and-the-mannerist-grotesque-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}