| The Death of the Baroque and the Rhetoric of Good Taste Contributor(s): Minor, Vernon (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521843413 ISBN-13: 9780521843416 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $57.94 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2005 Annotation: In late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Rome, a rhetorical war raged among intellectuals in the attack and defense of language, literature, and the visual arts. This book examines the cultural upheaval that accompanied attacks on the baroque predilection for ornament, extended visual metaphors, grandiloquence, and mystical rapture. Rome's Academy of the Arcadians emerged as a potent social and cultural force in the final decade of the seventeenth century and throughout the eighteenth century provided a setting for arguments on artistic taste and reforms in literature and religion. This book describes the waning days of the baroque and ends with an analysis of the Parrhasian Grove. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - Baroque & Rococo - Art | European |
| Dewey: 700.903 |
| LCCN: 2005011725 |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 7.18" W x 10.26" (1.54 lbs) 206 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
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Contributor Bio(s): Minor, Vernon: - Vernon Hyde Minor is professor in the departments of art and art history, and comparative literature and the humanities, at the University of Colorado, Boulder. A Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and member of the Association of Members of the Institute for Advanced Study, he is the author of Art History's History, Baroque and Rococo: Art and Culture, and Passive Tranquility: The Sculpture of Filippo de la Valle. He is currently the Editor of the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. |