Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - Baroque & Rococo

Edited with an introduction and notes by James T. Boulton.

'One of the greatest essays ever written on art.' The Guardian

Edmund Burke s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is one of the most important works of aesthetics ever published. Whilst many writers have taken up their pen to write of "the beautiful," Burke s subject here was the quality he uniquely distinguished as "the sublime" an all-consuming force beyond beauty that compelled terror as much as rapture in all who beheld it. It was an...

Intricate, expressive, given to grandeur and even excess, Baroque art as a style is inseparable from the meanings it seeks to convey. Vernon Hyde Minor's Baroque Visual Rhetoric probes this combination of style and message and - equally importantly - the methodological basis on which the critical art historian comes to establish that meaning.

Drawing on a breathtaking range of critical literature, from the German founders of art history as an academic discipline to Heidegger, Derrida, and de Man, Minor considers the issue through a series of Baroque masterpieces: Bernini's...

Unlike the work of his contemporaries Rubens and Caravaggio, who painted on a grand scale, seventeenth-century Flemish painter Jan Brueghel's tiny, detail-filled paintings took their place not in galleries but among touchable objects. This first book-length study of his work investigates how educated beholders valued the experience of refined, miniaturized artworks in Baroque Europe, and how, conversely, Brueghel's distinctive aesthetic set a standard--and a technique--for the production of inexpensive popular images.

It has been easy for art historians to overlook the work of Jan...

In the Dutch language, Handeling refers to the manual use of a tool (style), but also means action, and is directly associated with the motor activity of the whole body. The performative element of color application was a focus of practical interest for late Rembrandtists such as Arent de Gelder and also figured in Samuel van Hoogstraten's theory. For the first time, this study examines the theory and practice of Handeling during the period.

In Papal Rome, what determined the freedom of artistic action for women such as Artemisia Genileschi and Giovanna Garzoni? Other women, such as Christina von Schweden, collected art and left their mark in furnishing and building projects. This book examines the phenomena and representations of femininity between 1580 and 1700 and explores how femininity was constructed in various contexts.

Current developments in the digital organization of knowledge give rise to an in-depth study in the humanities of the history of the cultural practice of capturing and storing information.

This interdisciplinary anthology discusses current research issues on historical theories and practices of information processing in art history research. Using examples from the period between the end of the 17^th century and the early 19^th century, the contributions investigate how in Europe new ideas of storing knowledge and processing data were reflected in the fine arts...

Der heutige Museumsbesucher orientiert sich an eingeubten Verhaltensmustern, die eine eigene Geschichte haben. In dieser Studie wird am Beispiel der Jahresausstellungen der koniglichen Kunstakademie im Louvre untersucht, wie sich Normen einer offentlichen Kunstbetrachtung im Zeitalter der Aufklarung etablierten und schliesslich hinterfragt wurden. Erstmalig wird auf Basis eines umfassenden und kritischen Quellenstudiums herausgearbeitet, wie sich das Verstandnis von einem passiv bewundernden hin zu einem kreativ (mit)gestaltenden, korperlich wie emotional bewegten Bildbetrachter...

Der Tagungsband fokussiert aus historischer Perspektive Fragen nach Status, Funktion und Bedeutung von Visualisierungen des Affektiven in der Kunst der Fruhen Neuzeit im Kontext ihrer medialen Bedingungen und kulturellen Voraussetzungen. Medienubergreifend gehen die gesammelten Beitrage dem komplexen Wechselverhaltnis zwischen der Sichtbarmachung der Affekte in Bildern und deren gezielter Evokation durch Bilder nach. Verankert in aktuellen bildwissenschaftlichen, rezeptionsasthetischen und diskursanalytischen Debatten, versuchen die einzelnen Werkanalysen einen...