Baroquemania : Italian visual culture and the construction of national identity, 1898-1945 /
Baroquemania offers a new account of Italian post-unification visual culture through its entanglement with the Baroque. Interrogating the Baroque's fraught afterlife in the work of Giorgio de Chirico, Armando Brasini, Lucio Fontana and others, the book reveals its role in crafting a distinctive...
Saved in:
Author / Creator: | |
---|---|
Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021. |
Series: | Manchester scholarship online.
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | Click here for full text at Project MUSE |
Summary: | Baroquemania offers a new account of Italian post-unification visual culture through its entanglement with the Baroque. Interrogating the Baroque's fraught afterlife in the work of Giorgio de Chirico, Armando Brasini, Lucio Fontana and others, the book reveals its role in crafting a distinctively Italian approach to modern art. Baroquemania explores the intersections of art, architecture and criticism to show how reimagining the Baroque helped craft a distinctively Italian approach to modern art. Offering a bold reassessment of post-unification visual culture, the book examines a wide variety of media and ideologically charged discourses on the Baroque, both inside and outside the academy. Key episodes in the modern afterlife of the Baroque are addressed, notably the Decadentist interpretation of Gianlorenzo Bernini, the 1911 universal fairs in Turin and Rome, Roberto Longhi's historically grounded view of Futurism, architectural projects in Fascist Rome and the interwar reception of Adolfo Wildt and Lucio Fontana's sculpture. Featuring a wealth of visual materials, Baroquemania offers a fresh look at a central aspect of Italy's modern art. |
---|---|
Item Description: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed January 20, 2023). |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 267 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781526153180 1526153181 1526153165 9781526153166 1526168294 9781526168290 |
Author Notes: |