Impossible Nature

The World of Giuseppe Arcimboldo

AvJessica Keating

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Del 72 i serien Renaissance Lives

201 kr

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Beskrivning

Impossible Nature offers a fresh reassessment of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, the Lombard painter whose fantastical composite heads became fixtures of the Habsburg court and emblems of imperial imagination. Moving beyond the familiar images, this book argues that court art was never merely decorative: it upheld power even as it subtly unravelled the narratives that power wished to project. Through incisive visual readings, Jessica Keating shows the ways in which Arcimboldo’s work pictured and contemplated anew the codependency of art, nature and sovereignty, and reveals an artist far more conceptually daring – and more urgently relevant – than his playful surfaces suggest.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-01
Mått:138 x 216 x 12 mm
Vikt:247 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Renaissance Lives
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Reaktion Books
ISBN:9781836392606

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Jessica Keating is Associate Professor of Early Modern Art History at Carleton College, Minnesota. She is the author of Animating Empire: Automata, The Holy Roman Empire, and the Early Modern World (2018).

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"This richly illustrated life of Arcimboldo delightfully narrates the complexity of the artist’s journey between Milan, Vienna, and Prague through close study of his varied artistic production within the context of the cultural, social, and political circles he traversed. Like Arcimboldo’s playful paintings themselves, Jessica Keating’s study brings joy at the same time that it reveals the paradoxes of the early modern world." - Lia Markey, Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library, Chicago