Main entry:

Harries, Karsten.

Title & Author:

The Bavarian rococo church : between faith and aestheticism / Karsten Harries.

Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©1983.

Description:

xv, 282 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. THE PICTORIALIZATION OF ORNAMENT -- French Origins -- Régence and Rococo -- Ornamental Metamorphoses -- The Turn to Rocaille -- Provincial Rococo? -- Abstract Rocaille -- Frames and Frescoes -- Ornament and Architecture -- 2. SPACE AND ILLUSION -- A Modest Beginning -- Heaven Made Visible -- Impossible Illusions -- Beyond Illusionism -- Mediating Frames -- An Exemplary Rococo Church -- 3. ARCHITECTURE AGAINST ARCHITECTURE -- Indirect Light -- Renaissance Interlude and Gothic Prelude -- St. Michael and the Wall-Pillar Church -- An Influential Adaptation -- Transformations of the Hall Choir -- Versions of the Centralized Nave -- Diaphanous Walls and Weightless Vaults -- Pictorialization and Sacralization -- 4. THEATRUM SACRUM -- A Lesson of Two Tournaments -- Frescoes as Theatre -- Altar and Stage -- Stages Within Stages -- Aesthetic and Religious Play -- The Insufficiency of Perspective -- Theatre and Reality -- 5. TIME, HISTORY, AND ETERNITY: THE TEMPORAL DIMENSIONS OF THE ROCOCO CHURCH -- The Church and Religious Action -- The Triumph of St. Michael -- Journey to a Bavarian Heaven -- Even Kings Must Die -- 6. ECCLESIA AND MARÍA -- The Church as Symbol of the Church -- Hieroglyphic Signs -- Emblematic Play -- Marian Piety -- The Church as Symbol of the Virgin -- Marian Naturalism -- The Wedding of Sky and Water -- 7. ROCOCO CHURCH AND ENLIGHTENMENT -- An Ominous Mandate -- Bavarian Enlightenment -- A Waste of Time? -- The Critique of Opera -- Architecture and the Demands of Reason -- The Impropriety of Rocaille -- 8. THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE ROCOCO CHURCH -- Transition and End -- Autumnal Rococo -- The Secularization of Light and Landscape -- Autonomous Ornament -- 9. CONCLUSION: THE DEATH OF ORNAMENT -- The Ethical Function of Ornament -- The Case Against Ornament -- Aesthetic Purity -- Art and the Sacred.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0300027206
9780300027204

Subject:

Church architecture Germany Bavaria.
Architecture, Rococo Germany Bavaria.
Religious architecture Germany Bavaria.
Architecture, Rococo Germany [West] Bavaria.
Architecture religieuse Allemagne Bavière.
Architecture rococo Allemagne Bavière.
Architecture chrétienne Allemagne Bavière.
Religious architecture
Architecture, Rococo
Church architecture
Kirchenbau
Rokoko
Kerkgebouwen.
Rococo.
Germany Bavaria
Bayern
West Germany Bavaria Churches Rococo style

Holdings:

Location: Library main 59657
Call No.: PO4270; ID:85-B6687
Status: Available

Location: Library main 59658
Call No.: 0000556 A2055; ID:85-B6687
Status: Available