The Portrait Of Eccentricity
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The Portrait Of Eccentricity Arcimboldo And The Mannerist Grotesque
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language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
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The Portrait Of Eccentricity
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Author : Giancarlo Maiorino
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 1991
The Portrait Of Eccentricity written by Giancarlo Maiorino and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Art categories.
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.
Johnny Golightly Comes Home
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Author : Pat Hopkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Johnny Golightly Comes Home written by Pat Hopkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Artists categories.
'For years I'd been struggling with an identity crisis,' says the slight, immaculately dressed Boerma as he plunges a fork into a slice of carrot cake topped with a blob of cream and a pink bougainvillaea petal. 'My mother was English, my father Dutch; I was gay, while the Nelspruit community I grew up in was macho; I had fabulous visions of Parisian glamour, but I lived in Hicksville; and I had privilege, while my black friends were oppressed.' When John-Anthony Boerma, in exile in Holland, put down Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, his checkerboard life fell into place - Holly Golightly, the central character, was him. This was the fi rst of several identities that the artist assumed. Pat Hopkins tells the story of this eccentric man in a personal story that at times becomes intertwined with his own story. The result is a very personal and intriguing memoir of a writer describing an artist who leads him on a dance of discovery.
Science And Eccentricity
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Author : Victoria Carroll
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-07-17
Science And Eccentricity written by Victoria Carroll and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-17 with History categories.
The concept of eccentricity was central to how people in the 19th century understood their world. This book explores how, from the turn of the century, discourses of eccentricity were established to make sense of individuals who did not seem to fit within an increasingly organized social and economic order.
Eccentric Modernisms
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Author : Tirza True Latimer
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2017
Eccentric Modernisms written by Tirza True Latimer and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Art categories.
What if we ascribe significance to aesthetic and social divergences rather than waving them aside as anomalous? What if we look closely at what does not appear central, or appears peripherally, or does not appear at all, viewing ellipses, outliers, absences, and outtakes as significant? Eccentric Modernisms places queer demands on art history, tracing the relational networks connecting cosmopolitan eccentrics who cultivated discrepant strains of modernism in America during the 1930s and 1940s. Building on the author’s earlier studies of Gertrude Stein and other lesbians who participated in transatlantic cultural exchanges between the world wars, this book moves in a different direction, focusing primarily on the gay men who formed Stein’s support network and whose careers, in turn, she helped to launch, including the neo-romantic painters Pavel Tchelitchew and writer-editor Charles Henri Ford. Eccentric Modernisms shows how these “eccentric modernists” bucked trends by working collectively, reveling in disciplinary promiscuity and sustaining creative affiliations across national and cultural boundaries.
Eccentricity And The Cultural Imagination In Nineteenth Century Paris
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Author : Miranda Gill
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2009-01-15
Eccentricity And The Cultural Imagination In Nineteenth Century Paris written by Miranda Gill and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
What did it mean to call someone 'eccentric' in nineteenth-century Paris? And why did breaking with convention arouse such ambivalent responses in middle-class readers, writers, and spectators? From high society to Bohemia and the demi-monde to the madhouse, the scandal of nonconformism provoked anxiety, disgust, and often secret yearning. In a culture preoccupied by the need for order yet simultaneously drawn to the values of freedom and innovation, eccentricity continually tested the boundaries of bourgeois identity, ultimately becoming inseparable from it. This interdisciplinary study charts shifting French perceptions of the anomalous and bizarre from the 1830s to the fin de siècle, focusing on three key issues. First, during the July Monarchy eccentricity was linked to fashion, dandyism, and commodity culture; to many Parisians it epitomized the dangerous seductions of modernity and the growing prestige of the courtesan. Second, in the aftermath of the 1848 Revolution eccentricity was associated with the Bohemian artists and performers who inhabited 'the unknown Paris', a zone of social exclusion which middle-class spectators found both fascinating and repugnant. Finally, the popularization of medical theories of national decline in the latter part of the century led to decreasing tolerance for individual difference, and eccentricity was interpreted as a symptom of hidden insanity and deformity. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including etiquette manuals, fashion magazines, newspapers, novels, and psychiatric treatises, the study highlights the central role of gender in shaping perceptions of eccentricity. It provides new readings of works by major French writers and illuminates both well-known and neglected figures of Parisian modernity, from the courtesan and Bohemian to the female dandy and circus freak.
The Oxford Compendium Of Visual Illusions
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Author : Arthur Gilman Shapiro
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
The Oxford Compendium Of Visual Illusions written by Arthur Gilman Shapiro and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Medical categories.
Visual illusions are compelling phenomena that draw attention to the brain's capacity to construct our perceptual world. The Compendium is a collection of over 100 chapters on visual illusions, written by the illusion creators or by vision scientists who have investigated mechanisms underlying the phenomena. --
The World S Great And Eccentric Characters
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877
The World S Great And Eccentric Characters written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with Characters and characteristics categories.
The Great And Eccentric Characters Of The World Their Lives And Their Deeds Representing All Ages And All Countries
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877
The Great And Eccentric Characters Of The World Their Lives And Their Deeds Representing All Ages And All Countries written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with Biography categories.
The Eccentric Mirror
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Author : G. H. Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1807
The Eccentric Mirror written by G. H. Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1807 with Abnormalities, Human categories.