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...

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Author / Creator: Cecchini, Laura Moure (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.
Series:Manchester scholarship online.
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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:1526153165
1526153181
1526168294
9781526153166
9781526153180
9781526168290
Author Notes:Laura Moure Cecchini is Assistant Professor of Art History at Colgate University