{"product_id":"baroquemania-italian-visual-culture-and-the-construction-of-national-identity-1898-1945-9781526176370","title":"Baroquemania: Italian Visual Culture and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBaroquemania\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eBaroquemania\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fresh look at a central aspect of Italy's modern art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This is a very well-written and extremely well-researched book on a  fascinating topic. It is certainly essential reading for anyone interested in  contemporary Italian art.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrancesca Billiani, Professor of Italian at the University of Manchester.  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1 Decadent Seicento: the emergence of the Baroque in the Italian fin de siècle\u003cbr\u003e2 The Baroque’s revenge: the 1911 jubilee exhibitions and the search for an Italian style\u003cbr\u003e3 Baroque Futurism: Roberto Longhi, seventeenth-century art and the Italian avant-garde \u003cbr\u003e4 Classical Baroque: the Seicento and the return-to-order\u003cbr\u003e5 Baroque memories in the architecture of interwar Rome\u003cbr\u003e6 Form and formlessness: the reimagination of Baroque sculpture during Fascism\u003cbr\u003eConclusions\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041045610839,"sku":"9781526176370","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526176370.jpg?v=1750948730","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/baroquemania-italian-visual-culture-and-the-construction-of-national-identity-1898-1945-9781526176370","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}