Rethinking the Baroque
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (928 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073RQ4S11 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 521 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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A gulf has arisen. ?Baroque? emerges as a vital and productive way to rethink problems in art history, visual culture and architectural theory. In recent years the idea of ?baroque? or ?the baroque? has been seized upon by scholars from a range of disciplines and the term ?baroque? has consequently been much in evidence in writings on contemporary culture, especially architecture and entertainment. Rather than attempting to provide a survey of baroque as a chronological or geographical conception, the essays here attempt critical re-engagement with the term ?baroque? - its promise, its limits, and its overl
Rethinking the Baroque from a serious, scholarly point of view, is thus a well-needed enterprise, and this collection of essays by some of the most important thinkers of our time marvelously tackles the task.' Renaissance Quarterly ' this book's greatest contribution is that it prompts historians of Baroque art and architecture to look again at the term and its implications, and with the aid of Deleuze's 'fold' reassess the period through the prism of its very construction and history as an archive worthy of study.' The Burlington Magazine 'Perhaps we sympathize with the baroque today because, as participants in a postmodern world, we are painfully aware of being suspended between the epistemological and the ontological-that is, between the way things seem and the way they are.
Helen Hills is Professor of Art History at the University of York, UK. . She is the editor of Architecture and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2003) and co-editor of Representing Emotions (Ashgate, 2005). She has published widely on seventeenth-century Italian architecture, including Invisible