Main entry:

Harbison, Robert.

Title & Author:

Reflections on Baroque / Robert Harbison.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Description:

x, 259 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Simultaneously published in Great Britain by Reaktion Books, London.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The case for disruption -- Tormented vision -- The view from above -- The end of heroism -- The world as scenery -- Baroque nature -- Colonial baroque -- Neo and Pseudo Baroque -- Baroque in the twentieth century.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"In this reinterpretation of the Baroque, Robert Harbison offers new readings that stress its eccentric and tumultuous forms, in which a destabilized sense of reality is often projected onto the viewer. This strange, subjectively inclined world is manifested in such bizarre phenomena as the small stuccoed universe of Giacomo Serpotta, the Sacred Mounts of Piedmont and the grimacing heads of F.X. Messerschmidt."
"From its beginnings in the seventeenth century, the Baroque embraced the whole of Catholic Europe and infiltrated Protestant England, Orthodox Russia and even Muslim Turkey. Architecture, paintings, poetry, music, natural science and new forms of piety all have their places on the Baroque map. Harbison explores their metamorphoses into later styles, particularly the Rococo, and, in an unexpected twist, pursues the Baroque idea into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, proposing provocative analyses of pastiches or imitations (in Der Rosenkavalier and the work of Aubrey Beardsley) or resemblances (deliberate or not) in Czech Cubism and Frank Gehry's architecture.
Typical of Harbison's approach is the depth and breadth of its points of reference. Reflections on Baroque demonstrates that the Baroque impulse lives on in the 21st-century imagination."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0226316009 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226316000 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226316017 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780226316017 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Arts, Baroque.
Civilization, Baroque.
Arts baroques.
Civilisation baroque.
Barok.
Bouwkunst.
Beeldende kunsten.
Barock
Kunst
Architektur

Holdings:

Location: Library main 218251
Call No.: NX451.5.B3 H3 2000
Status: Available