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The matter of violence in Baroque painting

Title

The matter of violence in Baroque painting / Bogdan Cornea.

Author

Cornea, Bogdan

Publication

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2023]
©2023

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Description

184 pages : illustrations (color); 24 cm

Summary

"Baroque depictions of violence are often dismissed as 'over the top' and 'excessive'. Their material richness and exciting visual complexity, together with the visceral engagement they demand from beholders, are usually explained in literature as reflecting the presumed violence of early modern society. This book explores the intersection between materiality, excess, and violence in seventeenth-century paintings through a close analysis of some of the most iconic works of the period. Baroque paintings expose or reference their materiality by insisting on various physical changes wrought through violence. This study approaches violence as the work of materiality, which has the potential to analogously stage pictorial surfaces as corporeal surfaces, where paint becomes flayed flesh, canvas threads ruptured skin, and red paint spilt blood."--

Series Statement

Visual and material culture, 1300-1700 ; 43

Uniform Title

Visual and material culture, 1300-1700 ; 43.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-182) and index.

ISBN

9789463727808
9463727809
9789048543830 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

on1345459504
1345459504
SCSB-14531208

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Columbia University Libraries