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Baroque : figures of excess in seventeenth-century European art and German literature
- Title
- Baroque : figures of excess in seventeenth-century European art and German literature / Peter J. Burgard.
- Author
- Burgard, Peter J.
- Publication
- Paderborn, Deutschland : Wilhelm Fink Verlag, ein Imprint der Brill Gruppe, [2019]
- ©2019
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- Description
- viii, 385 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 93 illustrations (20 color), facsimiles, plans; 24 cm
- Summary
- "What is the Baroque? Where did it come from and where did it go? Why do we have to ask these questions? Because art historians seem largely satisfied with their answers and most scholars of German literature are not satisfied, yet have stopped asking.This book discerns in the Baroque an aesthetic phenomenon that crosses both media and national boundaries in its celebration of excess and its disintegration of system, unity, and identity. The compositional principles and theoretical implications of the Baroque, as it first arose in Italian art, find expression in German poetics, drama, poetry, and narrative ? expression accessible only through resolute close reading. Readings of Bernini, Borromini, Velázquez, Rubens, Fracanzano, and de Hooch precipitate readings of Opitz, Gryphius, Fleming, Zesen, Hoffmannswaldau, and Grimmelshausen, demonstrating that seventeenth-century German literature both is Baroque and confirms what the Baroque is."--Page 4 of cover.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-378) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : the contested Baroque -- Part One. Models : art and architecture : Bernini, Borromini, Velázquez, Rubens, Fracanzano, De Hooch, et al. -- Part Two. Prelude : Opitz and the play of poetics -- Part Three. Performance : Gryphius : drama of indecision and tragedy of the transitory -- Part Four. Chorus : a surfeit of Baroque -- Part Five. Postlude : the echo of Opitz.
- Call Number
- JQE 19-899
- ISBN
- 9783770564002
- 3770564006
- 9783846764008 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 9783770564002
- OCLC
- 1112093737
- Author
- Burgard, Peter J., author.
- Title
- Baroque : figures of excess in seventeenth-century European art and German literature / Peter J. Burgard.
- Publisher
- Paderborn, Deutschland : Wilhelm Fink Verlag, ein Imprint der Brill Gruppe, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-378) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1500-1700
- Other Form:
- 9783846764008 e-book version
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9783770564002
- Research Call Number
- JQE 19-899