{"product_id":"impossible-nature-jessica-keating-9781836392606","title":"Impossible Nature: The World of Giuseppe Arcimboldo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fresh introduction to the life and art of the sixteenth-century Italian painter.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eImpossible Nature\u003c\/i\u003e offers a 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 unraveled the narratives that power wished to project. Through incisive visual readings, Jessica Keating shows the ways in which Arcimboldo's work pictured and contemplated the codependency of art, nature, and sovereignty anew, revealing an artist far more conceptually daring--and more urgently relevant--than his playful surfaces suggest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jessica Keating\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1836392605\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781836392606\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Reaktion Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Jessica Keating","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48997609701631,"sku":"9781836392606","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/impossible-nature-jessica-keating-9781836392606","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}