Rethinking the Baroque
Scholars from a range of disciplines retrieve the term 'baroque' from the margins of art history where it has been sidelines as 'anachronistic', to reconsider the usefulness of the term 'baroque', while avoiding simply rehearsing familiar policing of periodization, stylistic boundaries, categories or essence. 'Baroque' emerges as a vital and productive way to rethink problems in art history, visual culture and architectural theory
xv, 243 pages, [24] color plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780754666851, 0754666859
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The Baroque: the grit in the oyster of art history / Helen Hills
On sculptural relief: Malerisch, the autonomy of artistic media and the beginnings of Baroque studies / Alina Payne
Ottoman Baroque: the limits of style / Howard Caygill
Discomfited by the Baroque: a personal journey / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
Reframing the Baroque: on idolatry and the threshold of humanity / Claire Farago
Nicholas Hawksmoor's drawing technique of the 1690s and John Locke's Essay concerning human understanding / Anthony Geraghty
The real in Rococo / Glenn Adamson
Benjamin and the Baroque: posing the question of historical time / Andrew Benjamin
Baroque matters / Mieke Bal
The Baroque fold as map and as diagram / Tom Conley