How Long to Read The Portrait of Eccentricity

How Long Does it Take to Read The Portrait of Eccentricity?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 14 minutes to read The Portrait of Eccentricity by Giancarlo Maiorino

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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.

How long is The Portrait of Eccentricity?

The Portrait of Eccentricity by Giancarlo Maiorino is 188 pages long, and a total of 48,504 words.

This makes it 63% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Portrait of Eccentricity Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 25 minutes to read The Portrait of Eccentricity aloud.

What Reading Level is The Portrait of Eccentricity?

The Portrait of Eccentricity is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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