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Rethinking the Baroque (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Rethinking the Baroque (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Rethinking the Baroque explores a tension. 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. Most of the scholars concerned have
little knowledge of the art, literature, and history of the period
usually associated with the baroque. A gulf has arisen. On the one
hand, there are scholars who are deeply immersed in historical
period, who shy away from abstraction, and who have remained often
oblivious to the convulsions surrounding the term 'baroque'; on the
other, there are theorists and scholars of contemporary theory who
have largely ignored baroque art and architecture. This book
explores what happens when these worlds mesh. In this book,
scholars from a range of disciplines retrieve the term 'baroque'
from the margins of art history where it has been sidelined 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. 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 overlooked potential - in relation to the visual arts. Thus
the book is posited on the idea that tension is not only
inevitable, but even desirable, since it not only encapsulates
intellectual divergence (which is always as useful as much as it is
feared), but helps to push scholars (and therefore readers) outside
their usual runnels.
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